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PRAISE FOR SOUTH
A GOODREADS EDITORS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK
A CAN’T MISS INDIE SPECULATIVE FICTION (TOR.COM)
"Disguised as a high concept page-turner akin to Enrique Vila-Matas and Paul Auster, Babak Lakghomi's slyly subversive and uncanny novel, South, is pure sublime. Packed full of complex silence, sex, deceit, erasure, captivity, dreamlife, memory, and yes, despair, it wastes no syllable while wading neck-deep into its own conspiracy, remembering just in time to come back up for air where others drown." Blake Butler, Author of Molly
“South is as alluring as it is disquieting, with the strange and haunting visuals of an Andrei Tarkovsky film and the enigmatic feel of a novel by Italo Calvino. It draws you in--the sand, the sea, the editor, the publisher, the woman, the rig, the notebook, the ceremony, the wind--and then goes further than you dreamed it could.” Amina Cain, Author of A Horse at Night
"Babak Lakghomi's South is a quiet meditation on imagination and reality, absence and presence, and the world around us. Lakghomi achieves a poetic and hypnotic effect with his tightly constructed, spare prose. South is a fantastic novel." Brandon Hobson, National Book Award finalist and author of The Removed
“Babak Lakghomi is a visionary artist and masterful guide into and beyond the labyrinth containing all the unnameable and undefinable problems of our universe, our world, our little lives, waking and dreaming. South is another brilliant novel from an author who astounds me.” Bud Smith, Author of Teenager
REVIEWS
“A Lynchian descent into the paranoia and alienation of totalitarianism, South is a haunting and dreamlike novel.” Alice Martin, Shelf Awareness
“With South, Lakghomi proves himself to be a master of the minimal.” Nathan Dragon, Southwest Review
“South is an exceptional example of how the personal and political, when intimately entwined, make for a deeply compelling, even necessary read.” Paula Bomer, Full Stop
“Babak Lakghomi’s sharp-edged, jewel-like novel, South, cuts as cleanly as it sparkles.” Simon Lowe, PRISM International
“Thrilling and disquieting, South is a disorienting, cerebral novel that meditates on state surveillance.” Foreword Reviews
“Evocative … the fast pace will keep readers hooked.” Publishers Weekly
“A sublime trip, one full of terror and wonder.” Andrew Farkas, Exacting Clam
“Babak Lakghomi’s disturbing fiction builds intensity and paranoia with its constant suggestion of growing but never-fully-seen darkness stalking beneath the muscular prose.” Marcus Pactor, Heavy Feather Review
“Eerie and engrossing, punchy yet veiled in a semi-conscious aura.” Marta Balcewicz, 49th Shelf
“Tense, claustrophobic, and at times haunting, South is an audacious, timely, and mesmerizing story that digs into contemporary concerns about surveillance, isolation, and power.” Open Book
“South is a muted industrial thriller with mystic bits splashed throughout. Babak Lakghomi has taken the quick, minimal aspects of his early novella and extended them into another enigmatic, unnerving hypothetical.” Corey Qureshi, Heavy Feather Review
“His portrait of a totalitarian nation-state, where truth is fungible and selfhood is a luxury, is as surreal as it is nightmarish.” Ian Mond, Locus Magazine
