ISBN: 9780062946294 - then the fish swallowed him: a harrowing iranian literary debut – a political prisoner's psychological struggle in tehran's evin prison (24 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran?an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master?s Son?that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives. Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago, he is decidedly apolitical?even during the driver?s strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking point, and Yunus has reached his.Handcuffed and blindfolded, he is taken to the infamous Evin prison for political dissidents. Inside this stark, strangely ordered world, his fate becomes entwined with Hajj Saeed, his personal interrogator. The two develop a disturbing yet interdependent relationship, with each playing his assigned role in a high stakes psychological game of cat and mouse, where Yunus endures a mind-bending cycle of solitary confinement and interrogation. In their startlingly intimate exchanges, Yunus?s life begins to unfold?from his childhood memories growing up in a freer Iran to his heartbreaking betrayal of his only friend. As Yunus struggles to hold on to his sanity and evade Saeed?s increasingly undeniable accusations, he must eventually make an impossible choice: continue fighting or submit to the system of lies upholding Iran?s power.Gripping, startling, and masterfully told, Then the Fish Swallowed Him is a haunting story of life under despotism.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran?an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master?s Son?that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives. Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago, he is decidedly apolitical?even during the driver?s strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking point, and Yunus has reached his.Handcuffed and blindfolded, he is taken to the infamous Evin prison for political dissidents. Inside this stark, strangely ordered world, his fate becomes entwined with Hajj Saeed, his personal interrogator. The two develop a disturbing yet interdependent relationship, with each playing his assigned role in a high stakes psychological game of cat and mouse, where Yunus endures a mind-bending cycle of solitary confinement and interrogation. In their startlingly intimate exchanges, Yunus?s life begins to unfold?from his childhood memories growing up in a freer Iran to his heartbreaking betrayal of his only friend. As Yunus struggles to hold on to his sanity and evade Saeed?s increasingly undeniable accusations, he must eventually make an impossible choice: continue fighting or submit to the system of lies upholding Iran?s power.Gripping, startling, and masterfully told, Then the Fish Swallowed Him is a haunting story of life under despotism.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran?an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master?s Son?that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives. Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago, he is decidedly apolitical?even during the driver?s strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking point, and Yunus has reached his.Handcuffed and blindfolded, he is taken to the infamous Evin prison for political dissidents. Inside this stark, strangely ordered world, his fate becomes entwined with Hajj Saeed, his personal interrogator. The two develop a disturbing yet interdependent relationship, with each playing his assigned role in a high stakes psychological game of cat and mouse, where Yunus endures a mind-bending cycle of solitary confinement and interrogation. In their startlingly intimate exchanges, Yunus?s life begins to unfold?from his childhood memories growing up in a freer Iran to his heartbreaking betrayal of his only friend. As Yunus struggles to hold on to his sanity and evade Saeed?s increasingly undeniable accusations, he must eventually make an impossible choice: continue fighting or submit to the system of lies upholding Iran?s power.Gripping, startling, and masterfully told, Then the Fish Swallowed Him is a haunting story of life under despotism.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran?an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master?s Son?that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives. Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago, he is decidedly apolitical?even during the driver?s strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking point, and Yunus has reached his.Handcuffed and blindfolded, he is taken to the infamous Evin prison for political dissidents. Inside this stark, strangely ordered world, his fate becomes entwined with Hajj Saeed, his personal interrogator. The two develop a disturbing yet interdependent relationship, with each playing his assigned role in a high stakes psychological game of cat and mouse, where Yunus endures a mind-bending cycle of solitary confinement and interrogation. In their startlingly intimate exchanges, Yunus?s life begins to unfold?from his childhood memories growing up in a freer Iran to his heartbreaking betrayal of his only friend. As Yunus struggles to hold on to his sanity and evade Saeed?s increasingly undeniable accusations, he must eventually make an impossible choice: continue fighting or submit to the system of lies upholding Iran?s power.Gripping, startling, and masterfully told, Then the Fish Swallowed Him is a haunting story of life under despotism.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iranan unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master's Sonthat exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives. Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago, he is decidedly apoliticaleven during the driver's strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking point, and Yunus has reached his.Handcuffed and blindfolded, he is taken to the infamous Evin prison for political dissidents. Inside this stark, strangely ordered world, his fate becomes entwined with Hajj Saeed, his personal interrogator. The two develop a disturbing yet interdependent relationship, with each playing his assigned role in a high stakes psychological game of cat and mouse, where Yunus endures a mind-bending cycle of solitary confinement and interrogation. In their startlingly intimate exchanges, Yunus's life begins to unfoldfrom his childhood memories growing up in a freer Iran to his heartbreaking betrayal of his only friend. As Yunus struggles to hold on to his sanity and evade Saeed's increasingly undeniable accusations, he must eventually make an impossible choice: continue fighting or submit to the system of lies upholding Iran's power.Gripping, startling, and masterfully told, Then the Fish Swallowed Him is a haunting story of life under despotism.…