“Three Soldiers” comes to Iranian bookstores

TEHRAN,July 20(MNA) -- The Persian translation of “Three Soldiers” written by the American novelist John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896–1970) has been published in Iran. Ali Kahrobaei has translated the book into Persian and it has been published by Nika. “Three Soldiers” (1920) is one of the key American war novels of World War I, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. The novel exposes the fate of the common soldier during World War I. Driven by the idealism that infected many young Americans at the time (including Ernest Hemingway), author John Dos Passos joined the Ambulance Corps. His rapid and profound disillusionment forms the core of this fierce denouncement of the military and of the far-reaching social implications of its exploitation of young men. Dos Passos’ trilogy “U.S.A” was published in Iran in 2006. It was translated into Persian by Saeid Bastani.