A Nearby Country Called Love
Praise for A Nearby Country Called Love
Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Selected as a Buzz Books of 2023 by Publishers Marketplace
A Nearby Country Called Love is both a captivating window into contemporary Iran and a portrait of the parallel fates of a man and his country—a man who acknowledges the sullen and rumbling baggage of history but then chooses to step past its violent inheritance.
About Salar
Salar Abdoh is an author and writer. His latest novel is A Nearby Country Called Love (Viking Penguin, 2023). His book, Out of Mesopotamia (Akashic, 2020), has been hailed as “One of a handful of great modern war novels,” and was a NYTimes Editors’ Choice, and also selected as a Best Book of the year across several platforms, including Publishers Weekly. He is also the author of Tehran At Twilight, Opium, and The Poet Game, and editor and translator of the celebrated crime collection, Tehran Noir.
Mostly dividing his time between New York City and Tehran, Iran, Salar regularly publishes personal essays and short stories, plus numerous translations of other authors that appear in journals across the world.
A professor at the City University of New York’s City College campus in Harlem, he conducts workshops in the English Department’s MFA program and also directs undergraduate creative writing.
More Books by Salar
Out of Mesopotamia
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Tehran At Twilight
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Tehran Noir
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The Poet Game
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Opium
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Upcoming Events
Check here for upcoming events, lectures, book tour dates, and other engagements by author Salar Abdoh.
Date: Tues, Nov 7, 2023
City: Brooklyn, NY
Venue: Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Time: 7:30pm
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Date: Tues, Nov 28, 2023
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Venue: City of Asylum, 40 W North Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Time: 7:00pm
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