“Forty Nights is written in unadorned prose, leisurely, sometimes ruminative, sometimes whimsical. The Divan-e Hafez, a classic of Persian poetry, is a touchstone, both as a work of imagination and because the act of creation and imagination itself means being able to envisage a way through fear. Tishtar himself is an odd, somewhat callous man – the loner, coldly aloof. His detachment may be assigned to trauma, though there are suggestions that it is simply an aspect of his personality, extending back to his formative years in Tehran.”
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