{"id":14761,"date":"2022-01-24T10:45:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=14761"},"modified":"2024-11-13T08:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T13:05:24","slug":"babak-lakghomi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/babak-lakghomi\/","title":{"rendered":"Babak Lakghomi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Babak Lakghomi was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and writes in Toronto or Hamilton. He is a wastewater process engineer and writer of both short stories and novels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"174\" height=\"218\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2022\/01\/Floating-Notes-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14763 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2022\/01\/Floating-Notes-book-cover.jpg 174w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2022\/01\/Floating-Notes-book-cover-120x150.jpg 120w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 174px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 174\/218;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Floating Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>New York: Tyrant Books, 2018.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/torontomu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/fulldisplay?vid=01OCUL_TMU:01OCUL_TMU&amp;docid=alma991000354959708636\">PS8623.A422 F56 2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Floating Notes<\/em> 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\u2015or maybe they&#8217;re not. There are no clear answers, there are no solutions, and everything is anything in <em>Floating Notes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"346\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/01\/South-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15980 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 224px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 224\/346;width:177px;height:273px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/01\/South-book-cover.jpg 224w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/01\/South-book-cover-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/01\/South-book-cover-97x150.jpg 97w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">South<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2023.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/torontomu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01OCUL_TMU\/1pfebod\/alma991014581888808636\">e-book<\/a> (Access restricted to members of the university community)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> Babak Lakghomi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.babaklakghomi.com\/\">personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundurn.com\/\">Dundurn Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/store.nytyrant.com\/\">Tyrant Books<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babak Lakghomi was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and writes in Toronto or Hamilton. He is a wastewater process engineer and writer of both short stories and novels. 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