Description

At the beginning of the 1960s on the Caspian Sea in northern Iran: the narrator, who after about thirty years is trying to solve the mysterious murder of his uncle, creates a mysterious inner connection to his childhood through photos and comes into contact with extraordinary people , the totalitarian function of the Islamic religion, the world of women under patriarchal society and the first love in touch...

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"The Shadows” (Review by Peter Schütt, culture exchange from January 2004)
"Suddenly flashing seriousness" (Article on the reading by Carola Ebeling, taz from February 2004)

"A book that disturbs, alienates and shocks. not only Iranian readers, who are not used to their poets descending so deeply into the lowlands and abysses of ordinary life, but also the readers of the German translation, who are still far away from a novel from the Orient, especially from Persia Expect the brilliance of the Arabian Nights.[…]Mahmood Falaki tells his story with a great temporal, cultural and socio-psychological distance from the events. Nonetheless, the reader feels oppressively close to what is happening. Rarely has a contemporary Iranian author so urgently asked for guilt and made it clear that the skeletons in the closet of the past must be tracked down, processed and dealt with if the path to a better future is to be found.”

From a review by Peter Schütt, Journal for Culture Exchange, 2004