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Salar Abdoh


Born
in Tehran, Iran
January 01, 1965

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Fiction, Nonfiction, Literature


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, Abdoh regularly publishes personal essays and short stories, plus numerous translations of other authors that appear in journals across the world.

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Average rating: 3.61 · 1,256 ratings · 191 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors
Out of Mesopotamia
3.89 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions
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A Nearby Country Called Love
3.47 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions
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Tehran at Twilight
3.38 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions
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Tehran Noir
3.85 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions
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The Poet Game
3.20 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
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Opium
3.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions
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Urban Iran
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“Change always carried a price. Often that price was that there would be no change at all.”
― Salar Abdoh, Tehran at Twilight
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“FEAR IS THE BEST KEEPER OF SECRETS”
― Salar Abdoh, Tehran Noir
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“They'd laughed at him then, a cold, academic laughter that only knew the world through the New York Times.”
― Salar Abdoh, Tehran at Twilight
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