The prince's concealment

Translation: The smallest on Ali Karmi's translation Number of pages: 117 Gholshiri's name in Iran has two sides, the novelist and the intellectual, and the two sides are clearly intertwined, manifesting in his behavior as an intellectual and in his style as a novelist. He has consistently held weekly meetings and workshops at his home to read and discuss narrative works since the eighties until the end of his life. He began his life as a teacher in villages, worked in journalism, was the editor-in-chief of Karnameh magazine, and completed his short novel that we have in hand at the end of the sixties when he was no more than twenty-eight years old. In it, he narrates the period of transfer of power from the Qajar dynasty to the Pahlavi dynasty, where the aristocracy was on the verge of destruction, and modernity in traditions and concepts was emerging. Through his use of stream of consciousness techniques, he presented his characters and their stories, approaching concepts of freedom, tyranny, and slavery, and looking at women between two eras. In a writing style that no one had previously used in Iranian fiction, relying on modern techniques and a deeply insightful view of humans and their internal struggles.