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Every day is Saturday

Every day is Saturday

Derakhshan, Ahmad

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1997503700
ISBN13: 9781997503705
Publisher: Asemana Books
Published: Oct 26 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: Persian

Every Day Is Saturday, a novel by Ahmad Derakhshan, is a haunting exploration of love, memory, and loss in a world where the boundaries between past and present, reality and imagination, and life and death steadily dissolve. Surrounded by seemingly endless snow and cold, the narrator, Masoud, repeatedly returns to memories of his life with Sheida and their circle of friends-memories of love and friendship, books and films, dinners and ordinary conversations that gradually become entangled with arrest, political violence, fear, and guilt. Time no longer moves in a straight line: today slips into yesterday, the past unexpectedly erupts into the present, and, as the novel's title suggests, every day becomes Saturday. Through a fragmented, fluid narrative, Derakhshan draws the reader into the consciousness of a man struggling to understand what happened, what has been lost, and what responsibility he bears for the past. At the heart of the novel is the intimate relationship between Masoud and Sheida, set against the experience of a generation caught between the desire to live fully and the pressures of political repression-a generation forced to confront difficult questions about fear, silence, responsibility, and complicity. Every Day Is Saturday is ultimately a novel about memory's refusal to remain in the past, and about people who long to forget even as what they have lived through keeps returning, reshaping the present.

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