Dandil: Stories From Iranian Life

Synopsis

Dandil is a collection of four stories by the celebrated Iranian author Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi, first published 1966. "Saedi's fiction, judging from this uneven sampling of two novellas and three stories, is clearly and inherently political--with impossible-to-miss condemnation of the human waste allowed to have accumulated through the Shah's neglect of Iran's lower classes: benighted, desperately poor, awash in addiction, pimpery, cruelty, and superstition.