The first Englishlanguage story collection from one of Irans most important living fiction writers Guardian In Seasons of Purgatory the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence the boredom and brutality of war and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour banned from publication in his native Iran vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives young and old man and woman conscript and pri