Chimeras
Hans Roosli, a young Swiss journalist on his first assignment a broad, comes to Iran in October, 1971, to cover the Shah’s celebration of 2,500 years of the nation’s monarchy: an occasion that triggers events leading to the Islamic Revolution of 1979. There he meets a thirteen year-old girl of privilege, Donya, whose growing fascination for him impels him to return to cover the revolution until his arrest and imprisonment. One his release six years later, she is nowhere to.....
Triads
DD Hoffnung, the owner of a thriving bookstore and a doctoral student in philosophy of long-standing at the University of Chicago, finds his life to be upended by the sudden return of his former fiancée, Helen, after an absence of ten years. Over a ten-week academic term in the autumn of 1975, DD sees his well-ordered world gradually unravel in a way that he never expected, least of all in his relationship with Mila, the woman in his life who.....