{"product_id":"9781939419828","title":"Rituals of Restlessness","description":"\u003cbr\u003eEngineer Kamran Khosravi wants to die in a car accident.\u003cp\u003eOr he at least wants it to look that way. His professional life in the Iranian hinterlands is full of bureaucratic drudgery — protecting dams, for example, from looters. His wife Fariba can no longer stand it, and has left him to rejoin her family in Isfahan. She is anxious for him to choose a life with her, or to let her go and persist with things as they are. But Kamran’s issues run deeper than anybody imagines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2004 Golshiri Foundation Award for the best novel of the year and was named one of the ten best novels of the decade by the Press Critics Award in Iran. However, in 2007 Yaghoub Yadali was sentenced to one year in prison for having depicted an adulterous affair in the novel. \u003ci\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e and his short story collection \u003ci\u003eSketches in the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e have been banned from publication and reprint in Iran. This book is the first for Phoneme Media’s City of Asylum Imprint, which showcases books by current and former writers‐in‐residence at the Pittsburgh‐based nonprofit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Groove Rec","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051010900208,"sku":"9781939419828","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781939419828_p0.jpg?v=1763666082","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781939419828","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}