Story Collection ‘Telomere’ Enters the Market

According to the correspondent of Iran Book News Agency (IBNA), the story collection ‘Telomere’ by Neda Alipour, which was recently published, includes the stories ‘White Gladiolus,’ ‘Telomere,’ ‘Bone-Cracking,’ ‘Lullaby by an Empty Cradle,’ ‘Malek and the Mother of the Well,’ ‘Three White Hairs,’ ‘Befarin,’ ‘Half Asleep, Half Awake,’ ‘Boys and the Grass at the Bottom of the Valley,’ ‘Fish Tastes Like Wolf,’ and ‘Aliyeh, the Fish, a Hippopotamus, and Two Crabs’.

The prose of the stories is poetic, vivid, and at the same time simple and intimate, and each of the book’s stories in some way depicts human confrontation with existence.

You can read a part of the story ‘Aliyeh, the Fish, a Hippopotamus, and Two Crabs’ from this collection: “All day long, the words of the Persian book merge and blur. The bad, cold smell of the school lab settles in my throat. The skeleton there is more terrifying than ever. I feel disgusted by the snakes and the fetus in the jar, and I’m about to vomit. The bells drag on. I’ve forgotten how we used to read clocks and what each hand did. My ears have become heavy. I can’t hear Mrs.’s voice. I constantly fall behind and don’t understand what our homework is. During recess, I stay in class, yawn, and look at the hangar and water cooler from behind the window. I don’t eat my biscuit, and my bread and cheese sandwiches get stuck in my throat…”

Ayneka Publishers recently offered the story collection ‘Telomere’ in 191 pages for 220,000 Tomans.