Kalām-i bīgānah Persiska (Farsi) 2024
کلام بیگانه
Kalam-e Biganeh (The Stranger’s Words / Foreign Speech) tells the story of a man who manages a language institute. Before his birth, a fortune teller warned his mother that the child she was carrying would have a troubled fate: his short forehead and large mouth would make him stand out, and he would lack proper intelligence and understanding. His mother, seemingly convinced by the prophecy, grows up believing that her son, named Kalam and later called Nima by his wife, is a burden tied to her life, and she places no hope in him. As a child, relatives would even tell his mother to take him to a doctor because he behaved as though he were possessed.
The story begins at the language institute, but after receiving news of his father’s death, Kalam must travel back to his village in a car without air conditioning. Through this journey, readers are quickly introduced to the villagers, Kalam’s family, and the world from which he comes. The novel gradually unfolds into a portrait of family tensions, social judgment, superstition, and personal identity. Because apparently humans can build an entire destiny for a child based on one random fortune-teller and a forehead shape.
کلام بیگانه روایتی است دربارهی مردی که مدیریت یک آموزشگاه زبان را بر عهده دارد؛ پیش از تولد او که یک روستازاده است، فالگیری به مادرش گفته فرزندی که در راه دارد عاقبت خوبی نخواهد داشت؛ پیشانی کوتاه و دهان بزرگش خودنمایی میکند و عقل و شعور درستی هم نخواهد داشت. مادرش که گویی این حرف فالگیر را پذیرفته، از ابتدا پسرش را که کلام نام دارد و بعد از ازدواج همسرش او را نیما نامیده، آویزان خودش میداند و هیچ امیدی به او نبسته. وقتی کلام بچه بوده آشنایان به مادرش میگفتند که او را به دکتری نشان دهد زیرا شبیه جنزدهها رفتار میکند...
ماجرا از آموزشگاه زبان آغاز میشود و از خبر فوت پدر کلام، او باید با ماشینی که کولر هم ندارد تا روستایشان برود و بهاینترتیب مخاطب خیلی زود با اهالی روستا و خانوادهی کلام آشنا میشود.

