Details:
- author: Shahriar Mandanipour
- full title: Seasons of Purgatory
- narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- genre: literary fiction, short stories
- topics: #war, #traditions, #love, #betrayal
- publisher: HighBridge Audio
- publish date: 15.02.2022
- timing: 05:41:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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Stories:
- Shadows of the Cave
- Mummy and Honey
- Shatter the Stone Tooth
- Seasons of Purgatory
- If She Has No Coffin
- King of the Graveyard
- The Color of Midday Fire
- Seven Captains
- If You Didn't Kill the Cuckoo Bird
Excerpt from the Book:
Mr. Farvaneh didn't like to talk about his past, which way always at the center of everyone's curiosity and had somehow gained him their highest respect. His loathing for meaningless words and his disgust of having to state the obvious to ignorant people with amateurish inquisitiveness was apparent. He was someone who had his eye on faraway places and moved along the fringes of chaos and commotion, and he had only a few select companions.My Thoughts:
Seasons of the Purgatory is a collection of nine short stories from the Iranian author Shahriar Mandanipour. It is not an easy read. Many of the stories are like they were taken from someone’s purgatory. Topics are pretty diverse and explore modern life, traditions, love, jealousy, atrocities of war, and more. Many are sad, brutal, or heartbreaking. Like always with short stories, some are better than others. But, for me, with every story, they were getting better.
I liked the writing. The narrator is a Canadian-Iraqi actor Fajer Al-Kaisi. His voice is clear and easy to listen to. He uses some minor differences in pronunciation, so it sounded more authentic. I liked it.
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