Hassan Masoumi
My Name Is Marcel.
An intimate novel of memory, exile, and family — and three more books of fire, a divided city, and the silence after music.
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My Name Is Marcel
Geneva, 1920
He carries the people and places he has lost within him.
In editing
Fire Keeper
Persia, 646 CE · Udvada, 2015
How a flame can preserve the memory of an entire people.
In writing
The Two Shores
Constantinople, 1908
Muslims, Christians, Armenians, officials, labourers, and survivors gather beneath one roof.
Forthcoming
The Name and the Music
The French Riviera, 1950s
The silence that remains when the music ends.