Reza Khoshbin-e Khoshnazar () is an Iranian novelist who published his first novel, '' The Gods Laugh on Mondays'' in 1995 when he was in his twenties.Newsweek, October, 1995, page 37. The reaction was hot and some conservative papers accused him of writing

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and some zealots compared him with

Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie ( ; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern wor ...

. Eventually, men came in the night and torched his publisher book shop, Morghe-Amin Publication House, in

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. Author Khoshnazar has published six other novels in Sweden with Ferdosi Publication House entitled: The Prophet with the Head like a Squash in the Shadow of Dead Clock (), The End of Owl (), Tetraktus, the Damn Four (), Squint eyed and eyes of crows (), Nebraska Syndrome (), and My red ass baboons ().

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