We were once again going on a cross-country tour.
In November 2013, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ali Eskandarian was murdered alongside two members of the Iranian band, The Yellow Dogs. In the months leading up to this terrible event, Ali had been in correspondence with a friend and Dutch publisher, Oscar van Gelderen, about his semi-autobiographical novel. Golden Years is that book.
Set in the first decade of the 21st century in New York, Teheran and Dallas, Golden Years is a novel perfumed with excess and spirited decadence. It tells the story of a group of Iranian musicians in their twenties and our narrator, in his 30s, who is in thrall to the great American beats and has visions of Ancient Assyrian Futurism. Hungry and poor, high and hopping from bed to bed, and lover to lover, the characters in Golden Years are romantic exiles living with rock n roll as their religion.
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About the Author:
Ali Eskandarian was a singer, songwriter, and novelist. He was born in 1978 and died in 2013.
Review:
'Gripping and poignant . . . A beat novel, which demands to be compared with Jack Kerouac's On the Road, as well as Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City.' Marcel Theroux Guardian
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- PublisherFaber & Faber Social
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0571321062
- ISBN 13 9780571321063
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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