Only Sound Remains

Saeed has not gone back to Iran since his novel The Imaginary Narrative of a Real Murder came out, afraid of what the regime might do to him. He is taken aback when his father, Ismael, who has always stayed in Iran, decides to fly to Adelaide to see him. Over a brief visit Ismael confides that he once loved Forugh Farrokhzad, modern Iran's most provocative poet, without being loved in return. The confession changes how Saeed sees his father and leaves a disturbing doubt: could Ismael, without meaning to, have had a hand in her death? Shifting between Adelaide and Iran across the years of revolution, the novel links a father and son to Farrokhzad's life and to the politics and social rules that shaped the country.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Family, Politics, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, Iran

First published

2023

ISBN

9781922571731 (Puncher & Wattmann, Australia)