Novel · The work and its editions
Labkhand-e Maryam · Labkhand-i Maryam · Le Sourire de Mariam · Das Lächeln von Maryam
English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
Original language: Persian
Rabihavi describes a novel unfolding from morning to night in a Tehran shelter for people displaced by war. The French publisher presents four alternating monologues following Ozra, Issah and Mariam. The edition ledger keeps the revised Persian books beside the French translation, without treating the fictional family as the author’s biography.
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A chapter in the biography · A chapter in the biography · A chapter in the biographyRabihavi describes a seven-year permission wait and later discusses rewriting passages affected by self-censorship. These accounts are distinct from the dated French translation.
The Goethe & Hafis Persian record retains alternative publication dates. DNB’s full record explicitly includes both years.
Christophe Balaÿ’s French translation, with Serge Safran.
The later Persian paperback recorded by Naakojaa.
English parallel title; this edition is in Persian.
Princeton records 1996 and Libris 1997 for the same ISBN. These are kept as one conflicting catalogue edition record rather than asserted to be two printings.
English parallel title; this edition is in Persian.
Open Library explicitly records a Persian novel and a second-edition label. The English parallel title is retained; no English translator or English edition is inferred.
English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
Harvard gives 2020; the full DNB record gives a 2021 imprint and explicitly notes 2020 as an alternative publication date for the same ISBN. This supports one record with alternative dates, rather than two verified printings. Baang discusses the revised publication in May 2021. The book is Persian, with a German parallel title.
The publisher identifies this French translation from Persian. Its publication date belongs to the translation, rather than the original novel’s first appearance.
The digital-distribution record identifies this French electronic format separately from the paperback. The publisher’s print record credits Christophe Balaÿ’s translation from Persian; no separate ebook translator or text revision is named in the inspected ebook details.
English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
Naakojaa’s own publication record gives the Iranian-calendar year 1403. No exact Gregorian date or ISBN is printed in the checked fields.
English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
The publisher catalogue names this Persian book and its author. It supplies no year, ISBN or edition statement, and does not establish whether its text follows an earlier or revised version.
French · electronic format
Le Sourire de Mariam has a separately identified EPUB 3 publication, 9791097594756, alongside the print book 9791097594749. Kobo’s explicit French field and 19 August 2022 release date belong to the electronic record.
The print publisher names Christophe Balaÿ’s translation from Persian. The electronic listing supplies no new translator or revision statement, so its format is recorded without inventing a second translation.
Maryam · revision and translation
In Baang’s May 2021 account, Rabihavi describes revisiting a novel written about thirty years earlier. He connects the rewriting to passages shaped by self-censorship and explains that the new edition let him return to what he had wanted to write.
That account accompanies the Goethe & Hafis Persian publication. Its German parallel title, Das Lächeln von Maryam, does not establish a German translation. Christophe Balaÿ’s French Le Sourire de Mariam has its own publisher, translation credit and August 2022 date.
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Goethe & Hafis · 2020 / 2021
Harvard dates the Persian Goethe & Hafis edition to 2020. The fuller German National Library record gives a 2021 imprint and adds an explicit note that 2020 is an alternative publication date. Both records identify ISBN 9783940762870.
The additional catalogue note explains where the two years are retained. It does not prove two separate printings or select one physical-imprint date. The rewritten book’s publication context remains distinct from its later French translation.
Pendaar · Persian
Pendaar’s catalogue lists Maryam’s Smile under Rabihavi’s name. It gives no publication year, ISBN or edition number in the checked entry.
The listing adds a publisher appearance to the novel’s history. It does not establish whether the volume contains the earlier text or the rewritten version discussed in 2021.
Retailer · The retained ebook details give French, EPUB 3, 19 August 2022, Héliopoles – Fonds Serge Safran and identifier 9791097594756. This electronic format has a different identifier from the print book. The matching IBS record’s English-language category is contradicted by Kobo’s explicit language field. Retail capture: 14 September 2026; no current commercial availability is asserted.
Author interview · Published 28 July 2023, following a conversation in summer 2022. The author discusses early war books, displacement, Maryam and Boys of Love. Recollections are distinguished from edition imprints.
Library catalogue · Captured records identify four Goethe & Hafis books as Persian. Their German parallel titles do not establish German translations.
Library catalogue · Persian revised edition, Goethe & Hafis, Bonn, ISBN 9783940762870. Harvard records 2020; DNB records 2021 for the same ISBN. Pagination and parallel title do not resolve the year difference.
Editorial profile · Published 14 May 2021. Describes a rewritten Goethe & Hafis edition and carries the author’s discussion of earlier self-censorship; this publishing context does not settle Harvard’s 2020 catalogue year.
Publisher · The publisher’s record names Rabihavi, Naakojaa, Persian literature, paperback and publication year 1403. It prints no ISBN or more precise publication date. Retained capture: 14 September 2026.
Publisher · French edition dated 19 August 2022, translated from Persian by Christophe Balaÿ, ISBN 9791097594749. Its synopsis describes four alternating monologues and a fictional family displaced by war.
Library catalogue · The retained original MODS and JSON responses contain real edition fields: Afsane’s Persian Maryam, Gardoun and Pendaar Boys, and the 2023 Persian Four Seasons. Dates, first/second-edition labels and language codes are retained as catalogue evidence; they do not establish complete contents equivalence or German translations.
Library catalogue · Afsane, Uppsala, ISBN 9789197292603, dated 1996. Libris dates the same ISBN 1997. The year difference is retained as an unresolved catalogue conflict.
Library catalogue · Persian title with an English parallel title, [U.K.], Mardumak, 2011, ISBN 9781780830315. The parallel title and English novel label do not establish an English translation.
Library catalogue · The returned record explicitly identifies a Persian novel, Mardumak, [U.K.], 2011, ISBN 9781780830315 and a second-edition label. Its imported MARC sources include the Library of Congress, Columbia and Harvard; the parallel English title does not change the recorded language.
Library catalogue · Exact MARC record 1229110909 identifies a Persian first-edition-labelled book, Goethe & Hafis, Bonn, 2021, ISBN 9783940762870. Its note explicitly preserves 2020 as an alternative publication date. This fuller record explains the catalogue difference without proving two printings or selecting a single physical-imprint date.
Publisher · The publisher lists Persian-language books by Rabihavi: Gisu, Maryam’s Smile, A Ballad of Love and Iranian Four Seasons. It explicitly describes the latter two as story collections. No publication year, edition number or ISBN accompanies these four listings, so none is inferred. Its Boys of Love listing is not counted as an additional printing.