Salar Abdoh

Jul 12, 2024 | strangersguide.com | Salar Abdoh

This piece is published in collaboration with Coda Story as part of the Complicating Colonialism issue. All my life I’ve known versions of blindness. It began at a very young age when, from certain angles I would see two of everything – two homes, two cars, two of the same boy in kindergarten who wanted to fight me and did, two mothers, two of the Turkish dayah whom I always considered my real mother. Blindness can be seeing too much of things, just as much as seeing too little.

Jul 12, 2024 | codastory.com | Salar Abdoh

All my life I’ve known versions of blindness. It began at a very young age when, from certain angles I would see two of everything – two homes, two cars, two of the same boy in kindergarten who wanted to fight me and did, two mothers, two of the Turkish dayah whom I always considered my real mother. Blindness can be seeing too much of things, just as much as seeing too little.

Feb 4, 2024 | themarkaz.org | Salar Abdoh

In the aftermath of a long war, a man in Iran searches for meaning, hopes for love, and struggles with the story of a whale. Salar AbdohOn the third day the kid who had made it down that vicious slope with Ebadi still wanted to live. He didn’t want to risk his life to see if the vine growing on the other side of the stream had any grapes left to eat. The night before, Ebadi had tried the crossing himself. It had been difficult for him.

Nov 19, 2023 | independent.ng | Salar Abdoh

J INA MOORE NGARAMBE; SALAR ABDOH You needn’t read very far to find the theme of A Nearby Country Called Love — or one of them, at least. Salar Abdoh’s latest novel tips its hand almost immediately. A man named Nasser claims a distant kinship to a woman who set herself on fire after her husband took a second wife. Nasser, a firefighter with a reputation as a man of effective violence in Zamzam, a tough part of Tehran, wants to avenge the woman’s honor by fighting her widower.

Nov 14, 2023 | guernicamag.com | Jina Moore Ngarambe |Salar Abdoh |Jina Moore

A Nearby Country Called Love, offers tenderness, nuance, and surprise in Iran."> You needn’t read very far to find the theme of A Nearby Country Called Love — or one of them, at least. Salar Abdoh’s latest novel tips its hand almost immediately.