Golden years - Ali Eskandarian

We were once again going on a cross-country tour.

In
November 2013, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ali Eskandarian was murdered
alongside two members of the Iranian band, The Yellow Dogs. In the
months leading up to this terrible event, Ali had been in correspondence
with a friend and Dutch publisher, Oscar van Gelderen, about his
semi-autobiographical novel. Golden Years is that book.

Set in
the first decade of the 21st century in New York, Teheran and Dallas,
Golden Years is a novel perfumed with excess and spirited decadence. It
tells the story of a group of Iranian musicians in their twenties and
our narrator, in his 30s, who is in thrall to the great American beats
and has visions of Ancient Assyrian Futurism. Hungry and poor, high and
hopping from bed to bed, and lover to lover, the characters in Golden
Years are romantic exiles living with rock n roll as their religion.