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The novel depicts rural village life in a fictional town in northern Iran in the 1960s, a time when many people from the countryside were moving to cities. The main character is Mergan, a woman whose husband, Soluch, has left without a word, leaving behind two boys and a girl. The novel shows what
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wrote an essay about the novel called "Reading
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happens as Mergan's family falls prey to the everyday calamities of the poor such as theft, starvation and violence, paralleling the demise of the village to the forces of modernity. Translator
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called it "a stark but engrossing portrait of contemporary rural Iran.. The story is relentless, but beautifully and incisively rendered, and imbued throughout with hope."
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