A review by agniguha01
Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour

3.5

A collection of graphic and visceral stories that explores collective violence as well as the interior lives of people living through war and destruction. 
The imagery in these stories are so vivid, often grotesque yet mundane that they will stay with me for a long time. The collection explores various themes of disruption and death. Juxtapositions between the urban and rural, man and beast, mind and matter. These are some very powerful microcosmic stories of people living through violence. 
The attitude towards women in some stories was a little difficult to read about.