Story · Incident at the Central Workshop
Heights of Fire
English finding-aid title for the scanned Persian text; not a published English translation title.
A young refinery worker brings home his permanent entrance pass as his family mourns an aunt whose life was marked by an industrial fire.
- Author
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- Incident at the Central Workshop
- Source date
- 1358 (1979–80) · scanned collection
- Published language
- Persian
- This page
- English publication guide
English editorial orientation to the inspected Persian scan. The complete literary text remains with the original publication.
Reading orientation
The narrator obtains a permanent refinery pass on the third day after Aunt Delbar’s death. His father’s delight in the card meets his own fear of the furnaces and flames: the family remembers Habib, Delbar’s husband, who was burned in the refinery. Delbar had blinded herself after learning of his death, yet continued to recognise the factory whistle. Source 1
The whistle joins domestic grief to the organisation of working time. Delbar hears Habib’s suffering in its sound, while the narrator’s retired father hears the institution that once governed his days. The new entrance card promises security and belonging without removing the narrator’s apprehension. The story ends by returning to the aunt’s demand that he listen. Source 1
The scanned appearance
Bolandi-ha-ye atash appears in Incident at the Central Workshop, PDF pages 4–14. The title page names Damoon, Tehran and 1358. A conflicting colophon names Heights of Fire; this record identifies the actual first story, rather than inferring a separate book. The date identifies the scanned volume, rather than an independently established composition date. The English title is a finding aid. Source 1
Sources & credits
- Heights of Fire · scanned Persian source
Bolandi-ha-ye atash. Incident at the Central Workshop. The title page names Damoon, Tehran and 1358. A conflicting colophon names Heights of Fire; this record identifies the actual first story, rather than inferring a separate book. PDF pages 4–14. The English paragraphs are original editorial reading orientations, not reproduced or translated literary passages.