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Best of Guernica: Aliyeh Ataei’s The Border Merchant

By Aliyeh Ataei and Salar Abdoh August 31, 2021

A smuggler, a person of the border, can shapeshift; he can be Robin Hood or Noah. He can make people’s lives better, as he claims, or he can funnel them into this prison.

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The Border Merchant

By Aliyeh Ataei, translated by Salar Abdoh November 6, 2019

On the remote border between Afghanistan and Iran, an enigmatic smuggler makes a living selling hope.