![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Told through the rotating viewpoints of the family patriarch and each of his four children, the family's misfortunes become the mirror of a paternalistic and oppressive society that pits brother against brother, encourages a father to denounce a son and burn his poems, forces a daughter to remain in an unhappy marriage, and abandons the last child to a mysterious hidden existence. Over the course of that day-long search, the entire history of the family is revealed in four symphony-like movements. The story begins as Urhan Urkhani, a prominent citizen of the town, sets out to find his brother in a midwinter snowstorm. Set in the northern town of Ardabil in the aftermath of the Second World War. سمفونی مردگان = Symphony of the Dead, Abbas MaroufiĪ contemporary version of the Cain and Abel story, this novel was greeted with widespread praise when it was first published in Iran in 1989. ![]()
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