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An edition of The marsh = (1996)

The marsh =

Gāvkhūnī

The Marsh is a novella presented as the first person narrative of a young, male unnamed narrator. The story opens with a dream made up of the narrator's memories of bathing, when he was a boy, in Isfahan's Zayandehrud river, in company with his father and his father's friends. We then see the narrator living in Tehran as a young man with two friends, Khashayar an unpublished poet, and Hamid whose main concern is to find himself a suitable wife.

But it is the narrator, not Hamid, who marries; his bride is a cousin with whom he has long imagined himself to be in love. The two marry after the death of the narrator's father, who owned a small tailoring business in Isfahan. Gradually the narrator becomes alienated from daily life, and lives out an obsessive imaginary relationship with his dead father.

As the novel proceeds we see him withdraw from his wife and her family, as well as from his former friends and job in Tehran, until he - and the reader - are quite unable to distinguish reality from hallucinatory fantasy.

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Mazda Publishers
Language
English
Pages
71

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Cover of: The Marsh: (Gavkhuni) : A Novel (Bibliotheca Iranica. Persian Fiction in Translation Series, No 3)
The Marsh: (Gavkhuni) : A Novel (Bibliotheca Iranica. Persian Fiction in Translation Series, No 3)
November 1996, Mazda Publishers
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Cover of: The marsh =
The marsh =: Gāvkhūnī
1996, Mazda Publishers
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Edition Notes

Published in
Costa Mesa, Calif
Series
Bibliotheca Iranica., no. 3

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891/.5533
Library of Congress
PK6561.M73 G3713 1996, PK6561.M73 M3713 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 71 p. ;
Number of pages
71

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1004645M
ISBN 10
156859044X
LCCN
96044379
OCLC/WorldCat
35718578
Goodreads
79282

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