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by Poupeh Missaghi
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Availability:In StockContributor:Poupeh MissaghiSeries:NvlaPublish date:2024-10-22Pages:136
Language:EnglishPublisher:Coffee House PressISBN-13:9781566896993ISBN-10:1566896991UPC:9781566896993Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Horror, PoliticalSize:6.90 x 4.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCQH8RHE23

A combination of fiction and documentation, Sound Museum fearlessly interrogates state-sanctioned violence and the psychology--and banality--of evil.

In Iran, a curator has gathered foreign journalists for a VIP tour of her latest creation. As the guests sit to listen to her initial remarks, she shares the struggles she's faced in bringing together this exhibition--especially the gender inequity she's battled for her entire career.

But the Sound Museum is no ordinary institution. It is a museum of torture, wrought from the audio recordings pulled from interrogation rooms and prison cells. And the curator--her unbroken monologue drifting through fieldwork examples, case studies, archives, philosophy, and dreams--is only too happy to share her part in this globe-spanning industry.

With sensuous and lyrical prose, Sound Museum bears witness while calling into question the act of witnessing, underlining complicities in systems of power and drawing the reader into the uncomfortable position of confronting one woman's psyche: evil, yet completely blind to her own depravity.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Coffee House PressISBN-13:9781566896993ISBN-10:1566896991UPC:9781566896993Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Horror, PoliticalSize:6.90 x 4.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCQH8RHE23

poupeh missaghi is a writer, editor, and translator (between English and Persian). Her debut novel trans(re)lating house one was published in 2020 (Coffee House Press). Her translations include I'll be Strong for You by Nasim Marashi (Astra House, 2021) and In the Streets of Tehran by Nila (Ithaka Press, 2023), as well as forthcoming Boys of Love by Ghazi Rabihavi (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024). She is currently an assistant professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, and a faculty mentor at the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, OR.


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