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Mordad at the Southern Kilns · Mordad, Pay-e Kureh-haye Jonub
English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
Original language: Persian
The book is connected to reporting on children working at the brick kilns around Abadan. In his 2024 Aasoo conversation, Rabihavi recalls working with photographer Manouchehr Deghati in 1358 and writing the story at the same time. His testimony gives the work a context without making its fictional child an identified reporting subject.
A chapter in the biographyRabihavi recalls writing the story while preparing a child-labour report with Manouchehr Deghati. This date concerns the writing and reporting, separately from the inspected printing.
The Yashar edition’s inspected colophon; it supplies no edition number.
English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
The original colophon prints autumn 58 and names Yashar. No edition number, ISBN or precise literary subtype is inferred.
Printed imprint · PDF page 3 names Yashar and the author, and prints autumn 58, retained as autumn 1358 in the book’s context. No first-edition wording is visible. Pages 1 and 41 supply front and back covers. Visually checked 4 October 2026.
Author interview · Published 10 December 2024. Author testimony about the kiln reporting, Mordad and Palm Tree and Gunpowder; no publication date is inferred from a date of writing.