Patterns

TranslationFictionIssue 36
Written by Ghazaleh Alizadeh (Tr. Nayereh Doosti)

Mina pouted. Reza patted her back. “That’s just life, my dear,” he said. “One day, even we will grow old.” Mina picked a red flower from the garden and pinned it to his blazer.

Ghazaleh Alizadeh (Tr. Nayereh Doosti)

Ghazaleh Alizadeh (1947–1996) was an Iranian novelist and short story writer. A key figure among second-generation Persian women novelists of the 1970s, she helped shape a distinctly Iranian narrative voice rooted in classical literature and mysticism. Her novel The Edrisis’ House received the Twenty Years of Fiction Writing award from Iran’s Ministry of Culture in 1999.

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