From a wedding where music makes trees bloom to a cinema shattered by a tank, these excerpts weave magic and violence into a portrait of Iran on the brink of transformation.
About The Author
Ali Araghi is a writer and translator. He is the author of The Immortals Of Tehran. He teaches creative writing at the Pennsylvania State University, USA
In the many endings that I picture, my mother and Ali end up stranded on roads, separated in different cities, looking for their belongings in the rubble, or chewing some meagre bread to quell their hunger
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