Abdoh collapses these boundaries, presenting a disjointed reality in which war and everyday life are inextricably entwined. The result, Saleh asserts late in the novel, is that “the transience ...

Abdoh (Tehran at Twilight) delivers a superb pressure cooker of a novel centered on Saleh, a middle-aged Iranian journalist with one bum eye who splits his time between Tehran and covering the war ...

From a conversation about Afghanistan between the Iranian writers Salar Abdoh and Mohammad Hossein Jafarian, which was published in September by Guernica. salar abdoh: Do you think that America was ...