Babak Lakghomi was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and writes in Toronto or Hamilton. He is primarily a short story writer but his first stand alone title is the novella, Floating Notes.
Fiction
Floating Notes
New York: Tyrant Books, 2018.
PS8623.A422 F56 2018
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Floating Notes is a novella of mystery, murder, intrigue, and love. In the space of a hundred pages, Lakghomi wroughts a unique narrator, a god in a rented room, where things appear and disappear from his life. And people are watching―or maybe they’re not. There are no clear answers, there are no solutions, and everything is anything in Floating Notes.
Fiction
South
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2023.
forthcoming August 2023
Publisher’s Synopsis
B, a journalist, travels to the South of an unnamed desert country for a mysterious mission to write a report about the recent strikes on an offshore oil rig. From the beginning of his trip, he is faced with a cruel and broken landscape of drought and decay, superstitious believers of evil winds and spirits, and corrupt entities focused on manipulation and censorship.