Jaʻfar Mudarris Ṣādiqī

Lātārī, chkhūf va dāstānhā-yi dīgar

Abū al-Faz̤l Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī

Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī

Muḥammad Ibn-Maḥmūd Hamadānī

Book of marvels

Jafar Mudarris Sadiqi

But it is the narrator, not Hamid, who marries; his bride is a cousin with whom he has long imagined himself to be in love. The two marry after the death of the narrator's father, who owned a small tailoring business in Isfahan. Gradually the narrator becomes alienated from daily life, and lives out an obsessive imaginary relationship with his dead father.

The Marsh

Ali Anooshahr

Horse's Head is a quest story of sorts in which the protagonist, Kasra, an unemployed white-collar worker, becomes acquainted with a young Kurdish woman and is infatuated with her and her plight with regard to Kurdish autonomy; after her departure he goes to the Kurdish regions in search of her, to in fact find himself. In a sense, Kasra, whose life seems aimless, is searching for a cause, a reason to give his existence meaning, and he tries to make the Kurdish girl's cause his own.

A Novel

Horse's Head

Jaʻfar Mudarris Ṣādiqī

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