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Thirst / Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ; translated by Martin E. Weir.
Van Pelt Library PK6561.D39 B4713 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawlatʹābādī, Maḥmūd, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Besmel. English
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988--Fiction.
- Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.
- Journalists--Iraq--Fiction.
- Journalists.
- Soldiers--Iraq--Fiction.
- Soldiers.
- Military prisons--Iraq--Fiction.
- Military prisons.
- Iraq.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 151 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Persian.
- Summary:
- Summoned to a military prison in order to write a fake story during the Iran-Iraq War, a journalist sits down with the major in charge and discusses a novel he is working on about soldiers fighting over a water tank while dying from thirst.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Besmel.
- ISBN:
- 9781612193007
- 1612193005
- OCLC:
- 859239325
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