Extract · BaghDarBagh · Khalil Paknia’s archive
Maryam’s Smile · archived extract
Mourning outside gives way to a hospital hall, where women search the rows of beds for their men.
- Author
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- BaghDarBagh · Khalil Paknia’s archive
- Source date
- 16 November 2010
- Published language
- Persian
- This page
- English publication guide
The novel’s short Persian passage was posted by Khalil Paknia.
Original English editorial orientation to the short archived Persian excerpt. The complete novel remains with its publication.
Entering the hall
The brief extract moves from women mourning on wet grass beneath a starry June sky to permission to enter the next day. Beds line a long tiled hall, and bodies are surrounded by sheets and bandages. Each woman searches for her own man before the shared scene breaks into individual cries. Recognition gives the paragraph its movement from a gathering outside to an intimate encounter at a bedside. Source 1
The archived publication
Khalil Paknia posted this fragment beside a November 2010 BaghDarBagh electronic-edition announcement. The passage begins and ends with omissions, so the scene’s position in the complete novel is not established here. Its publication trace sits alongside the separately documented print editions of Maryam’s Smile. Source 1
Sources & credits
- Maryam’s Smile · archived BaghDarBagh extract
Original retained source 334: 16 November 2010 post by Khalil Paknia, paragraphs 817–839; the short literary passage is 823. The post describes a November 2010 BaghDarBagh electronic appearance. Its claim of an Afsaneh 1990 first printing remains a listing claim and does not resolve other edition dates. No complete electronic book is republished here.