For Every Person You Kill (Novel) set for publication in Spring 2027 by Melville House
A work of autobiographical fiction, For Every Person You Kill follows Neda, a writer living in New York City, as she traces her parents’ years of political imprisonment in 1980s Iran. But when war engulfs Iran, her search for memory collides with unfolding catastrophe, forcing her to confront the legacies of loss, exile, persecution and the fierce acts of love that endure them.
“At a time of endless wars, rising authoritarianism, and historical amnesia, my novel seeks to bear witness to the human cost of political violence and to illuminate the acts of love, resistance, and remembrance that persist in the face of erasure.”
Sahar Delijani is the author of Children of the Jacaranda Tree, an internationally acclaimed novel, translated into 32 languages and published in more than 75 countries. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Jewish Currents, BOMB, McSweeney’s and elsewhere. Her second novel, For Every Person You Kill, is forthcoming from Melville House in Spring 2027.
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