白い紙

When her father, a doctor, is posted to a hospital close to the front in the war with Iraq, a teenage girl leaves Tehran for a small town near the border, and misses the capital. At the local school she falls for Hassan, a brilliant classmate set on studying medicine, whose teacher keeps telling the pupils that each of them is a blank sheet on which to draw their own future. In a town where young men and women may not so much as exchange a word, the two take risks to meet in secret, while religion, family and a war that is drawing in ever younger recruits press in around them.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

150 pages in the original

Genres

Love, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iran, 1980s

First published

2009 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

30 when first published

ISBN

9784163284101 (original)