

Out of Mesopotamia
Author: Salar Abdoh
Narrator: Sean Rohani
Unabridged: 6 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 09/08/2020
Categories: Fiction, Cultural Fiction, Literary Fiction, Military Fiction
Author: Salar Abdoh
Narrator: Sean Rohani
Unabridged: 6 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 09/08/2020
Categories: Fiction, Cultural Fiction, Literary Fiction, Military Fiction
Salar Abdoh is the author of the novels Tehran at Twilight, The Poet Game, and Opium and the editor of Tehran Noir. Born in Iran, he splits his time between Tehran and New York City, where he teaches in the MFA program at the City College of New York.
Sean Rohani is a talented voiceover artist who has worked on projects for Warner Brothers, Google, and Netflix. Born to Iranian immigrants, he was raised in a melting-pot community that taught him to be fascinated with all cultures and languages.
I have some mixed feelings about this book. As a general reader I liked the overall picture the story describes. The feelings are written so vividly and you enjoy following the characters. Although as an Iranian I got confused. I could not imagine Saleh as a journalist and art critic in today Iran w......more
10/10 for creativity and for being unique and different and thought-provoking... I came to this by an indirect route, but I'm glad it came to my attention, and my guess is that, next, I'll try Abdoh's most recent book or one of earlier his Noir offerings. This wasn't a particularly easy or pleasant re......more
Out of Mesopotamia is one of those rare books that I know I will read again and again. The prose is beautiful, the emotions raw and authentic in their confusion and contradiction. It is everything a true war story must be, contradictory, confusing, and full of love. Saleh is a writer in Tehran who is......more
A thrilling read with surprising depth told through the impaired but insightful eyes of an eternal outsider, Out of Mesopotamia is an illuminating and gripping war novel with a reality built on journalistic detail and with the imagination and craft of fiction. The way that Remembrance of Things Past......more
Abdoh's powerful novel follows an Iranian war reporter who is torn between his wearying job on the front lines and a civilian existence that he finds increasingly alienating. The book is as much a reflection on memory and art as it is a war story, and Abdoh's writing captures beautifully the absurdity of both the battlefield and modern life.