{"product_id":"9781566563154","title":"At the Wall of the Almighty","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"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...\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs if he were a tatter-day Sheherazade, our hero fights for his life by retreating into a world of stories - or memories? - of grandmothers and peacocks, love songs and saffron smells, and the softness of a young girl's hand pulling him up onto a magic carpet that flies down New Spring Street, over the crooked houses, to the Almighty Wall, which All the Bricklayer stacks taller every night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe grim unreality of life inside the prison falls darkly upon us, but the fire of Moshiri's imagination also lights the way to a different world. The masterful whole she fashions of torture and fragments is essential reading not just for those interested in the seldom-heard voices of Iranian woman, but for those who care about the progress of literature.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053980500208,"sku":"9781566563154","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566563154_p0.jpg?v=1763786333","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566563154","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}