Moon brow

by Shahriyār Mandanipur · 2018

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Before shrapnel severed his left arm during the Iran-Iraq war, Amir Khan lived the life of a carefree playboy. Five years later, his mother and sister Reyhaneh find him in mental hospital for shell-shocked soldiers and bring him home to Tehran. His memories decimated, Amir is haunted by the vision of a mysterious woman he believes is his fiancee. Wildly inventive and radically empathetic, steeped in Persian folklore and contemporary Middle East history, Moon Brow is the great Iranian novelist Shahriar Mandanipour's unforgettable epic of love, war, morality, faith, and family.

Genre
war and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of thismagical realismmagical realismMore like thisLess of this
Themes
siblingssiblingsMore like thisLess of thissoldierssoldiersMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2010s2010sMore like thisLess of thisIranIranMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 452 pages

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