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The US-Israeli bombardment has begun: there are bodies beneath the rubble. The Ayatollah is dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe guards have abandoned the prisons. The rain is black with fuel; it burns the skin and the streets. In this searing and contemplative work, writer, academic and Tehran resident Raha Nik-Andish documents life in the Islamic Republic in the days and months leading up to \"Operation Epic Fury.\" In a rarely-seen portrait of a regime in freefall, this is Tehran on the brink; the crushed protests over the collapse of the currency; the taxicabs circling the city for work; the burned out garbage cans and the taped-up windows. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does it mean to exist under siege? Or repression, blackout and total fear? How do you get the message out? 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What must a translator lose – and what might she gain – when she moves between languages, bringing ancient stories to modern life?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmily Wilson has spent a lifetime wrestling with these questions: here, she invites us to consider the meaning and messages of translators from antiquity to today – and gives a wholly fresh insight into her own work on Homer. 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