by : Farnoosh Moshiri (Author)
I know that I'm in the hallways of El-Deen, the central prison of the Holy Republic, and I know that this guard is taking me from my solitary confinement — the Black Box — to cell number four, cell of the Unbreakables. But this is all I know..." So begins our hero’s narration. But Loony Kamal, the prison guard, doesn’t believe him. Is it really possible for a man to forget who he is? To lose every shred of memory? Loony Kamal is bent on finding out. Our narrator, though, is even more determined to survive. Their relationship — with its inhuman brutality and surprising tenderness — lies at the complicated heart of Farnoosh Moshiri’s extraordinary debut novel. Which is where we quickly find ourselves, too, for we want what each man wants: like Kamal, we want to know more about our hero; like our hero, we long for his escape from Kamal's grasp and the prison's walls. As if he were a latter-day Sherazade, our hero fights for his life by retreating into a world of stories
