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Alienation
Author_Babak Lakghomi
Bad Spirits
Capitalism
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Censorship
Corruption
Demonstration
Desert
Disappearance
Drought
Environment
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Failing Relationships
Family
Fire
Informant
Interrogation
Journalism
Labour
Loss
Love
Madness
Memory
Occult
Oil
Spy
Strike
Surveillance
Tyranny
Water
Wind
Product details
- ISBN 9781459750814
- Weight: 240g
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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South is a haunting and hallucinatory reimagination of life in a world under totalitarianism, and an individual’s quest for truth, agency, and understanding.
B, a journalist, travels to the South of an unnamed desert country for a mysterious mission to write a report about the recent strikes on an offshore oil rig. From the beginning of his trip, he is faced with a cruel and broken landscape of drought and decay, superstitious believers of evil winds and spirits, and corrupt entities focused on manipulation and censorship. As he tries to defend himself against his unknown enemies, we learn about his father’s disappearance, his fading love with his wife, and his encounter with an unknown woman. A puzzle-like novel about totalitarianism, surveillance, alienation, and guilt that questions the forces that control us.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
B, a journalist, travels to the South of an unnamed desert country for a mysterious mission to write a report about the recent strikes on an offshore oil rig. From the beginning of his trip, he is faced with a cruel and broken landscape of drought and decay, superstitious believers of evil winds and spirits, and corrupt entities focused on manipulation and censorship. As he tries to defend himself against his unknown enemies, we learn about his father’s disappearance, his fading love with his wife, and his encounter with an unknown woman. A puzzle-like novel about totalitarianism, surveillance, alienation, and guilt that questions the forces that control us.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
Babak Lakghomi is the author of Floating Notes. His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, NOON, Ninth Letter, New York Tyrant, and Green Mountains Review, and has been translated into Italian and Farsi. Babak was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and writes in Toronto.
