راز پرومته فارسی 1404

As its title suggests, this collection of stories confronts readers with strange and enigmatic phenomena. Its mysteries sometimes weave together the worlds of myth and modernity, while at other times delirious voices speak fragments of hidden truths, or entire narratives unfold in fluid and fragmented forms to give expression to pain.

Some of the stories contain a lurking horror that slowly stirs at their core and gradually comes into being: a fragment of the self that, although never fully recognized as part of that self, begins as tame, harmless, and familiar, only to tear through its own skin and become the very thing that destroys it.

Other stories cry out a single red word: that which suffering humanity in the modern world struggles to attain, and which the dark forces of oppression seek relentlessly to suppress.

By the time readers reach the end of the collection, they may find themselves repeating these lines by the poet Houshang Ebtehaj ("Sayeh"), these "red words":

"O joy of freedom, when you return one day, what shall I do with this sorrow-nurturing heart of mine?"