South
by Babak Lakghomi
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Pub Date 12 Sep 2023 | Archive Date 30 Apr 2023
Dundurn Press, Rare Machines
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Description
B, a journalist, travels to the South of an unnamed desert country for a mysterious mission to write a report about the recent strikes on an offshore oil rig. From the beginning of his trip, he is faced with a cruel and broken landscape of drought and decay, superstitious believers of evil winds and spirits, and corrupt entities focused on manipulation and censorship. As he tries to defend himself against his unknown enemies, we learn about his father’s disappearance, his fading love with his wife, and his encounter with an unknown woman. A puzzle-like novel about totalitarianism, surveillance, alienation, and guilt that questions the forces that control us.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
Advance Praise
"Disguised as a high concept page-turner akin to Enrique Vila-Matas and Paul Auster, Babak Lakghomi's slyly subversive and uncanny novel, South, is pure sublime. Packed full of complex silence, sex, deceit, erasure, captivity, dreamlife, memory, and yes, despair, it wastes no syllable while wading neck-deep into its own conspiracy, remembering just in time to come back up for air where others drown. " —BLAKE BUTLER, author of Aannex
“South is as alluring as it is disquieting, with the strange and haunting visuals of an Andrei Tarkovsky film and the enigmatic feel of a novel by Italo Calvino. It draws you in--the sand, the sea, the editor, the publisher, the woman, the rig, the notebook, the ceremony, the wind--and then goes further than you dreamed it could.” —AMINA CAIN, author of A Horse at Night
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781459750814 |
| PRICE | $17.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 200 |
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