Thirst
By: Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ; translated by Martin E. Weir
Contributors: Weir, Martin E., translator
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Brooklyn, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9781612193007
Subjects: Fiction; Soldiers; Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988; Journalists; Military prisons
Work titles: Besmel
Description: Summoned to a military prison in order to write a fake story during the Iran-Iraq War, a journalist sits down with the major in charge and discusses a novel he is working on about soldiers fighting over a water tank while dying from thirst.
Notes: Translation of: Besmel.