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Book · 2017

Let’s Go Back Tonight

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In this Ahmad Mahmoud Award-winning collection of five short stories, Peyman Esmaeili explores the unsettling psychological terrain of migration, alienation, and modern displacement. From the oppressive claustrophobia of subway tunnels to the unfamiliar landscapes of Australia, ordinary characters find their safe boundaries shattered by primal fear, moral reckoning, and the disquieting sense of being strangers to both their surroundings and themselves.

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  • It is here that the construction of this triad of fable, myth, and allegory enables the book to lead the reader, alongside the character and the narrative, wherever it wishes, immersing them in a truly Borgesian world.
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  • Settings through whose skillful use each story succeeds in crafting tangible characters: an extraordinary yet natural and realistic atmosphere that gives rise to characters who are equally unique, natural, and real.
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  • "Let's Return Tonight" is a fine example of how this fabulism finds its way into Persian literature. In four out of the five short stories in this collection, Peyman Esmaeili succeeds in creating a world where the boundary between reality and magic is blurred.
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