Story · Mordad, at the Foot of the Kilns of the South
Mordad, at the Foot of the Kilns · reading
English finding-aid title for the scanned Persian text; not a published English translation title.
A child carrying wet bricks describes the kiln workers, his grandmother and the life he imagines beyond the heat.
- Author
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- Mordad, at the Foot of the Kilns of the South
- Source date
- Autumn 1358 (Iranian calendar) · Yashar edition
- 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 boy believes he is thirteen, although his grandmother’s uncertain reckoning and his working body make him doubt it. His days at the brick kilns bring him close to Yusuf, Sayyid and other labourers. Their jokes and stories share space with exhaustion, low wages and his grandmother’s grief for a son who died while trying to reach Kuwait for work. Source 1
His imagined pleasures are modest and precise: a Friday away from the kilns, a boat ride with his grandmother, a house made from the bricks he carries, and lessons from Javad. He asks whether knowledge of other people’s lives could change their own conditions. The first-person voice belongs to this literary narrator; his family and experiences are not assigned to Rabihavi’s biography. Source 1
The scanned appearance
Mordad, pay-e kureh-ha-ye jonub appears in Mordad, at the Foot of the Kilns of the South, PDF pages 5–39. The scanned colophon names Yashar and autumn 58. The closing page gives Abadan without a separate composition year. The date identifies the scanned volume, rather than an independently established composition date. The English title is a finding aid. Source 1
Sources & credits
- Mordad, at the Foot of the Kilns · reading · scanned Persian source
Mordad, pay-e kureh-ha-ye jonub. Mordad, at the Foot of the Kilns of the South. The scanned colophon names Yashar and autumn 58. The closing page gives Abadan without a separate composition year. PDF pages 5–39. The English paragraphs are original editorial reading orientations, not reproduced or translated literary passages.