The Book of Advice

Author: Ghazal Mosadeq

London, Greater London

Published on 1 June 2026 by Ugly Duckling Presse in the United States.

Paperback |
138 x 203 x 17 | 278g

The Book of Advice, an experiment in self-translation, stems from the andarznameh tradition of classical Persian literature, a form that moves between verse and prose as it engages invented or familiar sayings and folktales. Originally written in Persian between 2018-2020, the book now speaks in both English and Persian, opening at once from the back and the front, in a voice both distanced and familiar. The vicissitudes of the everyday preoccupy its intimately impersonal speaker as she wrestles with the inadequacy and mobility of language.