South
by Babak Lakghomi
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Pub Date 12 Sep 2023 | Archive Date 28 Sep 2023
Dundurn Press, Rare Machines
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Description
“A quiet meditation on imagination and reality, absence and presence, and the world around us. Lakghomi achieves a poetic and hypnotic effect with his tightly constructed, spare prose.” — Brandon Hobson, author of The Removed
“A Lynchian descent into the paranoia and alienation of totalitarianism, South is a haunting and dreamlike novel” — SHELF AWARENESS
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
"Babak Lakghomi's South is a quiet meditation on imagination and reality, absence and presence, and the world around us. Lakghomi achieves a poetic and hypnotic effect with his tightly constructed, spare prose. South is a fantastic novel."" —BRANDON HOBSON, National Book Award finalist and author of The Removed
"Babak Lakghomi is a visionary artist and masterful guide into and beyond the labyrinth containing all the unnameable and undefinable problems of our universe, our world, our little lives, waking and dreaming. South is another brilliant novel from an author who astounds me." —BUD SMITH, author of Teenager
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781459750814 |
| PRICE | $17.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 200 |
Links
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