The novel "Tehran at the end of time" by Amir Hassan Chehlton is a description of important events and happenings of Iran's contemporary history in six episodes, which in total constitute a historical novel. A novel with a historical event: murder Robert Whitney Imbury The vice consul of the American Embassy and the agent of Sinclair Oil Company started the execution and killing of political prisoners in the hot summer of 1367 by the suspicious incitement of a group of ordinary people from the street and bazaar during the inauguration of Reza Shah on a hot summer day (Friday, July 27, 1303). The main part of the novel ends in this massacre.

However, "Tehran at the end of time" cannot be considered only a historical novel, but at the same time it is also a critical-social novel that introduces the reader to the culture and superstitions of the majority of the people and the role of parties, groups and political forces on the basis of this. It displays the traditional culture in the last one hundred years.

Amir Hasan Chehltan has succeeded well by taking into account historical documents and quoting them in the form of a historical novel, portraying the complex process of recent hundred years of Iranian history with charm and with a beautiful and readable expression that is special for a good historical novel. The Tehran book at the end of time is the second volume of the "Tehran" trilogy by Amir Hassan Chiheltan, which has not been published in Iran until now, and this is the first time that it has been published in Persian by Suzeh Publishing and Goethe and Hafez Publishing in Germany. From the publication of its first volume, "Tehran El-Enghalab Street", it will be published. The "Tehran" trilogy by Amir Hassan Chiheltan, which was translated and published abroad, especially in Germany, was welcomed and criticized by the prestigious press, and it can be considered as one of the best novels of contemporary Iranian literature, which portrays the historical events of Iran. Unfortunately, aspiring Iranian readers have been deprived of reading them until now due to censorship and the creation of a suffocating atmosphere in the field of book publishing in Iran.

The historical novel "Tehran, Apocalypse" by Amir Hassan Cheheltan describes in six episodes important happenings and events of contemporary Iranian history. The novel begins with the murder of Robert Whitney Imbrie, Vice Consul at the American Embassy and agent of the Sinclair Oil Company, on a hot summer's day in 1924. A group of ordinary people in the alleys and bazaars are suspected of being the instigators when Reza Shah ( founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and the father of the Shah of Iran) takes office. The story ends in the hot summer of 1988 with the execution of one of the novel's main characters in this massacre.

However, "Tehran, Apocalypse" can be seen not only as a historical, but also as a socio-critical novel that describes the history, traditional culture and superstitions of the people, involving the reader in the political movements of Iran in the last hundred years .

The book "Tehran, Apocalypse" is the second volume of the Tehran trilogy by Amir Hassan Cheheltan, which was not previously allowed to be published due to censorship in Iran.

This work is published for the first time in Persian by Sujet Verlag and Goethe & Hafis Verlag published in Germany. The Tehran trilogy has so far been published in German, English, Italian, Norwegian and Hebrew. In addition, his books have been described by the renowned press as important novels in contemporary Iranian literature.

Amir Hassan Cheheltan

prose | 1st edition 2022 | hardcover | 254 pages