Co-op availableSignificant bound galley mailing to media and booksellers, including bound galley promotional offer through the American Booksellers Association’s “Advance Access” program. Additional digital review copy distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through Edelweiss National print and online media campaignsExcerpts in AGNI, CONSEQUENCE, EPOCH, Kenyon Review, Literary Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Words Without Borders, and Strange Times, My Dear: The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian LiteratureTranslator statement available in press materialSimultaneous eBook publication and promotionPostcards availableEarly outreach and giveaways through LibraryThingPromotion through BLP’s social media channels and website: www.blpress.orgEditor: Erika GoldmanAgent: Georges Borchardt of Georges Borchardt, Inc.Cover designer: Emily MahonMarketing and publicity efforts supported by Molly Mikolowski of A Literary Light
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST
The first English-language story collection from “one of Iran’s most important living fiction writers” (Guardian), “a playful, whip-smart literary conjuror: a Kundera or Rushdie of post-Khomeini Iran” (Wall Street Journal)
In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour, banned from publication in his native Iran, vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives: young and old, man and woman, conscript and prisoner. While delivering a ferocious social critique, these stories are steeped in the poetry and stark beauty of an ancient land and culture.
