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Availability:In StockContributor:Ahmad MahmoudSeries:Modern Middle East Literature in TranslationPublish date:2013-10-01Pages:410
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9780292749054ISBN-10:292749058UPC:9780292749054Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, PoliticalBook Topic:Middle EastSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.95 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SCVKJJWRDH

Ahmad Mahmoud sets The Neighbors against the backdrop of the oil nationalization crisis that gripped Iran in the early 1950s. His protagonist, Khaled, a young man from a rundown neighborhood in Ahvaz, a city in southern Iran, becomes involved in the struggle to wrest Iran's oil industry from the British and, as the result of his political activities, comes to realize that there is more to life than the drudgery and poverty his parents and neighbors have experienced.

The Neighbors, published in 1974, cemented Mahmoud's reputation as a novelist and captured the ethos of a generation-the generation that laid the groundwork for those who continue to struggle for democracy in Iran today. Though the novel received considerable praise and was read widely, its political nature earned the ire of Mohammad Reza Shah's regime, and the Islamic Republic has objected to its sexually explicit content. This is the first time one of Ahmad Mahmoud's novels has appeared in English translation.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9780292749054ISBN-10:292749058UPC:9780292749054Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, PoliticalBook Topic:Middle EastSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.95 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SCVKJJWRDH

Ahmad Mahmoud was born in Ahvaz in 1931 and, like his protagonist, spent time in prison for political agitation in the 1950s. He wrote several short story collections and novels before his death in 2002.

Nastaran Kherad, born in Abadan, a city in southern Iran, is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.


Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Ahmad Mahmoud

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