Persian, Translated

A Database of Persian Literature in English Translation

فارسی، به انگلیسی

بانک داده‌ ترجمه‌های انگلیسی از ادبیات فارسی

Log in

ADVERTISEMENT

Home

Rituals of Restlessness

Title
Rituals of Restlessness
Translator
Sara Khalili
Publisher
Phoneme Media
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Genre
Novel
Format
Book
Medium
Print
Publication Year
2016
Page Number
173
ISBN / ISSN
9781939419828
Does the translation have images?
No
Reviews

1

Book Self Description

ENGINEER KAMRAN KHOSRAVI WANTS TO DIE IN A CAR ACCIDENT. Or he at least wants it to look that way. His professional life in the Iranian hinterlands is full of bureaucratic drudgery-protecting dams, for example, from looters. His wife Fariba can no longer stand it, and has left him to rejoin her family in Isfahan. She is anxious for him to choose a life with her, or to let her go and persist with things as they are. But Kamran's issues run deeper than anybody imagines. Rituals of Restlessness won the 2004 Golshiri Foundation Award for the best novel of the year and was named one of the ten best novels of the decade by the Press Critics Award in Iran. However, in 2007 Yaghoub Yadali was sentenced to one year in prison for having depicted an adulterous affair in the novel. Rituals of Restlessness and his short story collection Sketches in the Garden have been banned from publication and reprint in Iran. This book is the first in Phoneme Media's City of Asylum Translation Series, which showcases books by current and former writers-in-residence at the Pittsburgh-based nonprofit.

Translation ID:

ADVERTISEMENT