Story · Palm Tree and Gunpowder
Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Persian story
English finding-aid title for the scanned Persian text; not a published English translation title.
Asaf carries a sack of tea through a palm grove at night while his pregnant wife waits and a frightened gendarme follows the sounds.
- Author
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- Palm Tree and Gunpowder
- Source date
- Summer 1359 (Iranian calendar) · Damoon 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
Asaf pedals an old bicycle along narrow paths and bridges, carrying tea he must sell to keep the household going. His thoughts return to his pregnant wife, her questions about their child and the rest he imagines at home. The narration moves between his difficult journey, her sleepless waiting and a gendarme who is himself frightened in the dark. Source 1
A barking dog draws the gendarme towards Asaf. Fear occupies both men’s bodies, but only one has the gun. A shot wounds Asaf; his bicycle falls and water reaches the sack of tea. He continues limping towards the last bridge as his wife runs downstairs. The ending holds the damaged livelihood and the wounded man together, without supplying a later outcome. Source 1
The scanned appearance
Nakhl va barut appears in Palm Tree and Gunpowder, PDF and printed pages 59–70. This is the fourth story in the scanned Damoon first edition, with an Abadan 56 closing dateline. The volume and the individual story share a title. The date identifies the scanned volume, rather than an independently established composition date. The English title is a finding aid. Source 1
Sources & credits
- Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Persian story · scanned Persian source
Nakhl va barut. Palm Tree and Gunpowder. This is the fourth story in the scanned Damoon first edition, with an Abadan 56 closing dateline. The volume and the individual story share a title. PDF and printed pages 59–70. The English paragraphs are original editorial reading orientations, not reproduced or translated literary passages.