Tehran Noir

Crime fiction set in Iran-including a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story.
" Tehran Noir is not only a solid crime collection, but an illuminating look into day-to-day life in the Middle East, with religious and political implications galore, as well as racial tensions bubbling just beneath the surface.... The stories in Tehran Noir aren't always easy to read, but they are engaging in the extreme." - San Francisco Book Review
Includes brand-new stories by Gina B.Nahai, Salar Abdoh, Lily Farhadpour, Azardokht Bahrami, Yourik Karim-Masihi, Vali Khalili, Farhaad Heidari Gooran, Aida Moradi Ahani, Mahsa Mohebali, Majed Neisi, Danial Haghighi, Javad Afhami, Sima Saeedi, Mahak Taheri, and Hossein Abkenar.
"A stellar and diverse cast of Iranian writers.... A collection such as this is able to bring Iran to life for the foreign reader in a way other fiction and non-fiction cannot.... Superb." - PopMatters

Salar Abdoh was born in Iran, and splits his time between Tehran and New York City, where he is codirector of the Creative Writing MFA Program at the City College of New York. He is the author of The Poet Game and Opium. His essays and short stories have appeared in various publications, including the New York Times, BOMB, Callaloo, Guernica, and on the BBC. He is the recipient of the NYFA Prize and the National Endowment for the Arts award. He is the editor of Tehran Noir and the author of Tehran at Twilight, his latest novel.

Table of Contents Introduction Part I: The Crime Pages -"The Fat, Fat Story of the Fat City" by Danial Haghighi (Mowlavi) -"Fear Is the Best Keeper of Secrets" by Vali Khalili (Rey) -"A Woman's Geography Is Sacred" by Lily Farhadpour (University of Tehran) Part II: When a War's Not Over -"The Shelf Life of Revenge" by Sima Saeedi (Karim-Khan, Villa) -"The Corpse Fixer" by Majed Neisi (Shahrak-e-Gharb) -"Lariyan's Day in the Sun" by Aida Moradi Ahani (Qeytarieh) -"The Whitest Set of Teeth in Tehran" by Salar Abdoh (Karim-Khan, Kuche Aban) Part III: Proper Burial -"The Restlessness of a Serial Killer at the Finish Line" by Javad Afhami (Shush) -"My Own Marble Jesus" by Mahsa Mohebali (Dibaji) -"In the Flophouse" by Farhaad Heidari Gooran (Gomrok) -"A Stoning Before Breakfast" by Azardokht Bahrami (Salehabad) Part IV: The Executioner's Song -"Bridge of Simon" by Yourik Karim-Masihi (Narmak) -"Not Every Bullet Is Meant for a King" by Hossein Abkenar (Shapur) -"The Groom's Return" by Mahak Taheri (Behesht e Zahra Cemetery) -"The Gravedigger's Kaddish" by Gina B. Nahai (Tehrangeles)