TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moshiri,Farnoosh
TI  - At the wall of the almighty: a novel 
SN  - 1566563151 (pbk.)
AV  - PS3563.O88443 A88 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Interlink Books
KW  - Religious fanatics
KW  - Political prisoners
KW  - Torture
KW  - Childhood memories
KW  - Hallucinations
KW  - Corruption
KW  - Individual and society
KW  - Prison
KW  - Psychological
KW  - ssi
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Sociological
KW  - Literary
N1  - With Loony Kamal -- In the Clinic -- Ha-G Interrogates -- In the Psychiatric Wing -- The Holy Show -- In Sultan's Room -- The Unbreakables
N2  - But Loony Kamal, the prison guard, doesn't believe him. Is it really possible for a man to forget who he is? To lose every shred of memory? Loony Kamal is bent on finding out. Our narrator, though, is even more determined to survive. Their relationship - with its inhuman brutality and surprising tenderness - lies at the complicated heart of Farnoosh Moshiri's extraordinary debut novel. Which is where we quickly find ourselves, too, for we want what each man wants: like Kamal, we want to know more about our hero; like our hero, we long for his escape from Kamal's grasp and the prison's walls; As if he were a tatter-day Sheherazade, our hero fights for his life by retreating into a world of stories - or memories? - of grandmothers and peacocks, love songs and saffron smells, and the softness of a young girl's hand pulling him up onto a magic carpet that flies down New Spring Street, over the crooked houses, to the Almighty Wall, which All the Bricklayer stacks taller every night; The grim unreality of life inside the prison falls darkly upon us, but the fire of Moshiri's imagination also lights the way to a different world. The masterful whole she fashions of torture and fragments is essential reading not just for those interested in the seldom-heard voices of Iranian woman, but for those who care about the progress of literature
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