A Restless Mind 40.92, 26.31

"Majedi captures the high emotion of the narrator's predicament... [and] builds to a poignant conclusion. A... powerful novella about exile and migration." — Kirkus Reviews

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At coordinates 40 . 92, 26 . 31, human rights are nothing but a brochure. Survival is a cold, muddy river.

In the freezing winter of 2022, an Iranian refugee finds himself shivering on the Turkish-Greek border. He is not the noble hero of a sanitized novel; he is a man exhausted by the "choreography of power" that dictates who lives and who dies.

Fleeing the ruins of Khorramshahr and the suffocating shadow of the "Generation of ’57"—the revolutionaries who spent his future before he was even born—he seeks freedom in the West. But what he encounters is not a sanctuary, but a brutal gauntlet. From the "human rights punch" delivered by a Greek border guard to the suffocating stench of a detention hall, his journey is a dismantling of dignity.

Trapped between the tyranny of the Mullahs he fled and the hypocrisy of the Europe he seeks, his mind becomes his only refuge and his torture chamber. He dissects the lies of political Islam, the hollowness of Western "woke" culture, and the crushing weight of history on an ordinary life.

Yet, amidst the mud and the strip-searches, a single ember refuses to die: the memory of a mother who stitched meat into meals she never tasted, serving as his silent North Star.

A Restless Mind is a searing, visceral novella that refuses to offer easy hope. It is the story of a man who, to survive a drowning river, must scream the very words he spent a lifetime escaping: "Allahu Akbar."