Publisher's Synopsis
"ghash-o zaf" is a collection of the Iranian author Awat Pourabdolahi.
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"Weakness and Fainting is another "report" (as the author calls his works) by Avat Poorabdollahi that records and displays the dark and unattractive side of the contemporary Iranian society where people do not show respect or sympathy towards each other and where turbans and beard are abused to subdue the public. The theme of death is prevalent in the book and most of the stories are told by a person who hardly has any identity. Almost all the characters in the stories suffer from some physical or mental problem; some are dead, some are mentally deranged, some suffer from lack of affection and some are vagrants. However, the author uses all these to show the reader what the contemporary society looks like." -- Review by Mahdi Alizadeh Ziaei (Department of English, University of Edinburgh)
