Recommended for espionage aficionados and for readers who enjoy international settings.” gives readers a visceral sense of life in a country where repression is the norm, someone is always watching, and your past is never really past. “Abdoh paints a gripping portrait of a nation awash in violence and crippled by corruption. Shadowy zealots exist everywhere, whether in conference rooms or interrogation rooms or-most often-in rooms that can serve as both.” He lives in Tehran as well as New York City where he teachesCreative Writing in the MFA program at the City College of the City University of New York. He has also edited and translated the anthology Tehran Noir, and his last book, 2014, was Tehran At Twilight. SALAR ABDOH is an Iranian novelist and essayist who has authored The Poet Game and Opium.

Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk | Arts Cafe He will discuss his latest novel, TEHRAN AT TWILIGHT which is at once a political thriller and a family saga and the story of displacement, friendship and loyalty. Now, Abdoh is the director of the graduate program in Creative Writing at theCity College of New York at the City University of New York. Six months after relocating to the US, Abdoh’s father passed away, leaving him and his two brothers homeless in Los Angeles. Abdoh was born in Iran and was forced to flee at age 14 when his father, a prominent cultural figure, was targeted by the new government that came to power after 1979 revolution. Join us on Tuesday, November 19, at 6:00 PM, for a conversation with award-winning Iranian-American novelist and essayist SALAR ABDOH.

Tehran Noir by Salar Abdoh