Story about جزیره آهنی / Jazireh ahani / Iron Island / 铁岛 / 浮城记
Squatter, mostly Arabs in Peria, live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Perian Gulf. The children at...
Squatter, mostly Arabs in Peria, live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Perian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children. Captain Nemat run things with an iron hand, orienting new residents, keeping the books, negotiating with new buyer who may want to scrap the ship, arranging things, keeping discipline. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of mean. What future has this sinking city?
