{"product_id":"sound-museum-9781566896993","title":"Sound Museum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA combination of fiction and documentation, \u003ci\u003eSound Museum\u003c\/i\u003e fearlessly interrogates state-sanctioned violence and the psychology--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand banality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eof evil. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Iran, a curator has gathered foreign journalists for a VIP tour of her latest creation. As the guests sit to listen to her initial remarks, she shares the struggles she's faced in bringing together this exhibition--especially the gender inequity she's battled for her entire career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the Sound Museum is no ordinary institution. It is a museum of torture, wrought from the audio recordings pulled from interrogation rooms and prison cells. And the curator--her unbroken monologue drifting through fieldwork examples, case studies, archives, philosophy, and dreams--is only too happy to share her part in this globe-spanning industry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith sensuous and lyrical prose, \u003ci\u003eSound Museum\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness while calling into question the act of witnessing, underlining complicities in systems of power and drawing the reader into the uncomfortable position of confronting one woman's psyche: evil, yet completely blind to her own depravity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003epoupeh missaghi is a writer, editor, and translator (between English and Persian). Her debut novel \u003ci\u003etrans(re)lating house one\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2020 (Coffee House Press). Her translations include \u003ci\u003eI'll be Strong for You\u003c\/i\u003e by Nasim Marashi (Astra House, 2021) and \u003ci\u003eIn the Streets of Tehran\u003c\/i\u003e by Nila (Ithaka Press, 2023), as well as forthcoming \u003ci\u003eBoys of Love\u003c\/i\u003e by Ghazi Rabihavi (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024). She is currently an assistant professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, and a faculty mentor at the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, OR.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878272209170,"sku":"9781566896993","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_34faac6f-7da8-4aac-a9f1-fd64cbe675f9.jpg?v=1738275489","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sound-museum-9781566896993","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}