Babak Lakghomi is the author of South (2023) and Floating Notes (2018). His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, NOON, Ninth Letter, New York Tyrant, The Adroit Journal, and Green Mountains Review, and has been translated into Italian and Farsi.
Lakghomi was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and writes in Toronto.
At Electric Lit he tagged ten "stories that play with form to portray the difficulty of accessing reality." One title on the list:
Missing Person by Patrick ModianoRead about the other entries on the list.
The winner of the Prix Goncourt, Missing Person is the story of an amnesiac detective, Guy Roland, who starts a search for his identity and his past after his boss shuts down the detective agency he has been working at for the last eight years. Following elements of a typical detective thriller, the novel is at once an investigation of the nature of self, and a reflection on collective erasure and amnesia in the aftermath of the French occupation.
--Marshal Zeringue
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