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Nicolas Wild travels to Iran at the invitation of his friend Sophia, daughter of the well-known humanist Cyrus Yazdani, who had been assassinated in mysterious circumstances. Here, Wild discovers Zoroastrianism, one of the world's first monotheistic religions and an inspiration to numerous philosophers, among them Nietzsche. As he meets and talks to people in Iran, Wild becomes immersed in Cyrus's story. With Sophia's permission, he goes to Geneva to hear the testimonies of the assassination trial at the Criminal Court. Inspired by the life of a real-life activist, Wild's account reveals more than the story of one man's life or a court case. With characteristic humour - both unprejudiced and warm - he portrays a complex picture of a people and a culture.

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Nicolas Wild is the author of several graphic novels, including Kabul Disco: How I Wasn't Kidnapped in Afghanistan and Kabul Disco: How I Did Not Become an Opium Addict in Afghanistan. He lives in France. Edward Gauvin has received fellowships and residencies from PEN America, PEN England the NEA, the Fulbright program, the Lannan Foundation, the French Embassy, Villa Gillet, the Centre National du Livre, Ledig House, the Banff Centre, the Clarion Workshop, and the American Literary Translators Association. His work has won the John Dryden Translation Prize and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, has been nominated for the French-American Foundation and Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prizes and shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. Other publications have appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, Subtropics, World Literature Today, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, and Weird Fiction Review. The translator of almost two hundred graphic novels, he is a contributing editor for comics at Words Without Borders.

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