{"product_id":"rituals-of-restlessness-paperback","title":"Rituals of Restlessness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYaghoub Yadali\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSara Khalili\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngineer Kamran Khosravi wants to die in a car accident. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOr he at least wants it to look that way. His professional life in the Iranian hinterlands is full of bureaucratic drudgery -- protecting dams, for example, from looters. His wife Fariba can no longer stand it, and has left him to rejoin her family in Isfahan. She is anxious for him to choose a life with her, or to let her go and persist with things as they are. But Kamran's issues run deeper than anybody imagines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2004 Golshiri Foundation Award for the best novel of the year and was named one of the ten best novels of the decade by the Press Critics Award in Iran. However, in 2007 Yaghoub Yadali was sentenced to one year in prison for having depicted an adulterous affair in the novel. \u003ci\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e and his short story collection \u003ci\u003eSketches in the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e have been banned from publication and reprint in Iran. This book is the first for Phoneme Media's City of Asylum Imprint, which showcases books by current and former writers‐in‐residence at the Pittsburgh‐based nonprofit.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYaghoub Yadali\u003c\/b\u003e, a fiction writer from Iran, has directed for television and worked for \u003ci\u003eRoshd Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e as the editor of the film section. In addition to \u003ci\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) and \u003ci\u003eSketches in the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), he is the author of the short story collection \u003ci\u003eProbablity of Merriment and Mooning\u003c\/i\u003e (2001). His short stories, articles, and essays are published in Iran, Turkey, and the US. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa, Harvard University, and City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, PA. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Khalili\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor and translator of contemporary Iranian literature. Her translations include \u003ci\u003eCensoring an Iranian Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e by Shahriar Mandanipour, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e by Parinoush Saniee, \u003ci\u003eKissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e by Shahrnush Parsipur, and \u003ci\u003ePomegranate Lady and Her Sons\u003c\/i\u003e by Goli Taraghi. She has also translated several volumes of poetry by Forough Farrokhzad, Simin Behbahani, Siavash Kasraii, and Fereydoon Moshiri. Her translations of Mandanipour's short stories have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEPOCH\u003c\/i\u003e, Words without Borders, and \u003ci\u003ePEN America\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 07, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769869926688,"sku":"9781939419828","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a26e7968247cb104d44591fd6ada3179.webp?v=1780358720","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rituals-of-restlessness-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}