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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - What becomes of free will when Heaven and Hell begin to manage human lives as rival experiments Mira Bell is sent from Heaven to live a life shaped by comfort, opportunity, and protection. Eli Mercer arrives from Hell under the opposite terms. His life is designed around hardship, disappointment, and pain. Their earthly journeys are meant to confirm a celestial theory: that privilege produces virtue, while suffering reveals moral failure.Then they meet, fall in love, and begin to ruin the plan.As Heaven and Hell intervene through illness, distance, ambition, loss, and carefully arranged coincidence, Mira and Eli continue to choose one another. Each attempt to separate them only exposes a deeper contradiction. If divine power directs the course of human life, what remains of free will If hardship can create generosity and compassion, while comfort can conceal moral weakness, can destiny truly decide who belongs in Heaven or Hell Witty, humane, and sharply satirical, The Department of Eternal Miscalculations explores love, moral transformation, divine bureaucracy, and the uneasy boundary between fate and choice. At its heart lies a provocative question: are people defined by the lives assigned to them, or by the decisions they make when those lives become difficult The novel suggests that goodness is neither inherited nor guaranteed. It can emerge from suffering, deepen through human connection, and become powerful enough to unsettle even the institutions of eternity.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Pearl Cannon begins with an object that once stood in Tehran's Citadel Square: a cannon surrounded by legend. Women visited it in the hope of marriage or fertility, and generations of Tehranis treated it as both relic and talisman. Hedayat takes this strange piece of urban folklore and turns it into one of his most audacious works.Hedayat's humour is dark, but the laughter is never weightless. Beneath the absurdity lies a sustained attack on superstition and on the language that allows brutality to present itself as virtue. The book moves restlessly through different ages, exposing how old forms of domination return beneath new names.To the best of the translator's knowledge, this is the first complete English translation of The Pearl Cannon. It has been prepared with close attention to Hedayat's voice and to the difficult music of his prose.The act of translation does not imply endorsement of the book's religious or political claims. Those views belong to Hedayat and to the satirical world he created. This edition is offered so that English-language readers may encounter another major work by one of Iran's most singular writers. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A woman returns to her father's house only forty days after her wedding, carrying the shame of a marriage that has collapsed before it has truly begun. Elsewhere, a teacher discovers that exhaustion can settle into the mind as deeply as illness, while a photographer offers an unexpected kindness to a man who arrives at his studio burdened by embarrassment. In another story, political ambition becomes a form of self-deception, and in another, a man standing in the snow wonders whether anything of him will remain after he has passed.These stories unfold across the courtyards, classrooms, streets, offices, and modest homes of twentieth-century Iran. Their characters are not heroes in the conventional sense. They are ordinary people trying to preserve some measure of dignity while family expectations, social convention, poverty, illness, and political hypocrisy close in around them. Their lives often appear small from the outside, yet each story reveals how much grief, hope, vanity, tenderness, and quiet resistance can be hidden within an ordinary day.The collection moves naturally between dark humour and compassion. Its satire can be sharp, but it never loses sight of human vulnerability. Beneath the social criticism lies a deep concern with loneliness, identity, and the desire to be seen. These themes give the stories a lasting power, making them feel immediate even far beyond the time and place in which they were written.This edition offers a faithful literary translation that preserves the character of the original Persian while allowing the stories to live fully in English. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What becomes of free will when Heaven and Hell begin to manage human lives as rival experiments?Mira Bell is sent from Heaven to live a life shaped by comfort, opportunity, and protection. Eli Mercer arrives from Hell under the opposite terms. His life is designed around hardship, disappointment, and pain. Their earthly journeys are meant to confirm a celestial theory: that privilege produces virtue, while suffering reveals moral failure.Then they meet, fall in love, and begin to ruin the plan.As Heaven and Hell intervene through illness, distance, ambition, loss, and carefully arranged coincidence, Mira and Eli continue to choose one another. Each attempt to separate them only exposes a deeper contradiction. If divine power directs the course of human life, what remains of free will? If hardship can create generosity and compassion, while comfort can conceal moral weakness, can destiny truly decide who belongs in Heaven or Hell?Witty, humane, and sharply satirical, The Department of Eternal Miscalculations explores love, moral transformation, divine bureaucracy, and the uneasy boundary between fate and choice. At its heart lies a provocative question: are people defined by the lives assigned to them, or by the decisions they make when those lives become difficult?The novel suggests that goodness is neither inherited nor guaranteed. It can emerge from suffering, deepen through human connection, and become powerful enough to unsettle even the institutions of eternity. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Pearl Cannon begins with an object that once stood in Tehran's Citadel Square: a cannon surrounded by legend. Women visited it in the hope of marriage or fertility, and generations of Tehranis treated it as both relic and talisman. Hedayat takes this strange piece of urban folklore and turns it into one of his most audacious works.Hedayat's humour is dark, but the laughter is never weightless. Beneath the absurdity lies a sustained attack on superstition and on the language that allows brutality to present itself as virtue. The book moves restlessly through different ages, exposing how old forms of domination return beneath new names.To the best of the translator's knowledge, this is the first complete English translation of The Pearl Cannon. It has been prepared with close attention to Hedayat's voice and to the difficult music of his prose.The act of translation does not imply endorsement of the book's religious or political claims. Those views belong to Hedayat and to the satirical world he created. This edition is offered so that English-language readers may encounter another major work by one of Iran's most singular writers. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…