TEHRAN-- Nightwork , a novel by American author Irwin Shaw, has pertained to Iranian bookstores.The 1975 book has been rendered into Persian by Saied Kalati, who has previously translated The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel , America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present and several other books.
Saless is the publisher of the book.In Nightwork , a dead guys briefcase presents a down-on-his-luck pilot with the chance of a lifetime.Pilot Douglas Grimess best days are long behind him.
Grounded due to a medical condition, Douglas has resigned himself to routine work as a desk clerk at a seedy hotel.
But his fortune turns when he discovers a hotel visitor dead from a cardiac arrest and, next to him, a tube jammed with hundred-dollar bills.
Douglas grabs the cash and, with it, the opportunity to remake his life.
In Europe, he meets Miles Fabian, an elegant and erudite con man with a style for extravagance.
Fabian recruits him for his most current ploy: robbing members of the idle rich.
But what will happen when his bad habits overtakes him?Shaw was born Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff in the South Bronx, New York City, to Russian Jewish immigrants.
He was a prolific American playwright, film writer, author, and short-story author whose written works have actually offered more than 14 million copies.
He is best known for his books, The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man Poor Man (1970 ).
Image: Front cover of the Persian edition of Irvin Shaws unique Nightwork .
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