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Thirst / Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ; translated by Martin E. Weir.

Title
Thirst / Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ; translated by Martin E. Weir.
Author
Dawlatʹābādī, Maḥmūd
Publication
  • Brooklyn, New York : Melville House Publishing, 2014.
  • ©2014

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Weir, Martin, E.
Description
151 pages; 21 cm
Summary
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.
Uniform Title
Besmel English.
Alternative Title
Besmel
Subject
  • 1980-1988
  • Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 > Fiction
  • Journalists > Iraq > Fiction
  • Soldiers > Iraq > Fiction
  • Military prisons > Iraq > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • novels.
  • Fiction
  • Novels
  • Romans.
Note
  • Translation of: Besmel.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781612193007
  • 1612193005
OCLC
859239325
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library