num_pages: 397
description: The Drowned is the translation of Moniro Ravanipour’s first novel, Ahl-e Gharq (1989), which brought her overnight nationwide recognition in Iran a decade after the tumultuous Islamic Revolution and a year after the devastating Iran-Iraq War. In general, in this novel, Ravanipour taps the rich culture of southwestern Iran, the region most affected by the destruction of the war, and more specifically, that of Jofreh, the village of her birth, and its inhabitants’ lives, customs, beliefs, superstitions, and struggles for survival.
language: Persian
title: اهل غرق
titlecomplete: اهل غرق
genres: Novels, Magical Realism, Fiction, Iran
ratings_count: 237
awards: awardedAt: -62167190400000
name: اهل غرق
publisher: خانه ی آفتاب