In TOTAL designs Nastaran Makaremi a complex literary panorama about power, resources and the traces that economic interests leave on societies.

The novel moves between past and present and links individual experiences with larger historical and political contexts. This creates a dense network of memories, myth and reality in which questions about exploitation, responsibility and resistance arise again and again.

In a poetic, yet haunting language, Makaremi tells of invisible connections and hidden dynamics - and of how profoundly power structures influence the lives of individual people. TOTAL is a novel about the aftermath of history and the search for truth in a complex world.

Translated from Persian by Bianca Gackstatter.

novel | 1st edition 2026 | Pages approx. 220 | ISBN: 978-3-96202-164-1 | available for pre-order