Tehran noir
By: edited and translated by Salar Abdoh
Series: Akashic Noir series; Akashic noir series
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781617753008
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Noir fiction; Fiction
Description: This entry in Akashic's noir series takes the gritty sensibilities born out of American film and fiction to Tehran.
Table of contents: title: The fat, fat story of the fat city  -- Danial Haghighi; title: Fear is the best keeper of secrets  -- Vali Khalili; title: A woman's geography is sacred  -- Lily Farhadpour; title: The shelf life of revenge  -- Sima Saeedi; title: The corpse fixer  -- Majed Neisi; title: Lariyan's day in the sun  -- Aida Moradi Ahani; title: The whitest set of teeth in Tehran  -- Salar Abdoh; title: The restlessness of a serial killer at the finish line  -- Javad Afhami; title: My own marble Jesus  -- Mahsa Mohebali; title: In the flophouse  -- Farhaad Heidari Gooran; title: A stoning before breakfast  -- Azardokht Bahrami; title: Bridge of Simon  -- Yourik Karim-Masihi; title: Not every bullet is meant for a king  -- Hossein Abkenar; title: The groom's return  -- Mahak Taheri; title: The graverdiggers kaddish -- Gina B. Hanai.