Se Ghatreh Khoon ( Persian Edition ): Three Drops of Blood Paperback – August 11, 2018

I’m glad I got this book. Well written.

Sadegh Hedayat is perhaps Iran's preeminent prose writer of the 20th century, similar to (say) Borges for Argentina. And like Borges, he focused on short stories. But the similarities end there-- Hedayat's stories are steeped in an Iran in transition between its glory days as the military and cultural beacon of Central Asia, culturally uniting a band of countries from (roughly) present-day Turkey through India and China, to a middling developing country beholden to European nations for its political, economic, and cultural cues. The characters in Hedayat's stories are steeped in the rusting, corroding Perso-Islamic culture, yearning to break free but ultimately unable to.Many of Hedayat's stories are not yet translated into English, and so one relies on books such as this. The presentation is quite poor; lines are often split mid-word, and there are spelling mistakes (missing or extraneous dots) galore. 5 stars for the content, 2 for the presentation

The type was all over the place, apparently whoever produced this edition did not know/care that Persian is written right to left. Basically unreadable.