Missing Soluch

A novel by the Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi about Mergan, a village woman whose husband Soluch disappears one morning, leaving her to keep her children fed and her family together through poverty and change in rural Iran. This is an original publisher's printing in Persian. It is for readers of modern Persian fiction and realist village novels.

Author: Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

Original title: جای خالی سلوچ

Bought from a Kabul bookshop and hand-delivered — the recipient inspects it at the door before accepting. The edition and cover may differ from the photo.