The Neighbors Paperback / softback
by Ahmad Mahmoud
Part of the CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation series
Paperback / softback
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Ahmad Mahmoud sets The Neighbors against the backdrop of the oil nationalization crisis that gripped Iran in the early 1950s.
His protagonist, Khaled, a young man from a rundown neighborhood in Ahvaz, a city in southern Iran, becomes involved in the struggle to wrest Iran’s oil industry from the British and, as the result of his political activities, comes to realize that there is more to life than the drudgery and poverty his parents and neighbors have experienced. The Neighbors, published in 1974, cemented Mahmoud’s reputation as a novelist and captured the ethos of a generation—the generation that laid the groundwork for those who continue to struggle for democracy in Iran today.
Though the novel received considerable praise and was read widely, its political nature earned the ire of Mohammad Reza Shah’s regime, and the Islamic Republic has objected to its sexually explicit content.
This is the first time one of Ahmad Mahmoud’s novels has appeared in English translation.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:410 pages
- Publisher:University of Texas Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2013
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- ISBN:9780292749054
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:410 pages
- Publisher:University of Texas Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780292749054