The book titled Aries by Mehdi Asadzadeh.

Hamed is a 20-year-old from Tehran who, like so many of his peers, is doing military service. A stubborn, impulsive and passionate young ram, who can't forget his ex-girlfriend Samira, with whom he had shared countless bizarre afternoons, spent hanging out between theaters and second-hand bookshops or visiting old shrines and cemeteries. When he learns that she is getting married to the new boyfriend, he loses his head and leaves the barracks without permission. Thus begins a ruinous and daring day, in which it pursues the mirage of regaining it by presenting itself by surprise to the marriage with a collection of rare books as a gift. But to buy them, he needs a lot of money, which he doesn't currently have ...

With a stream of consciousness characterized by an impetuous jargon, this short novel leads us to know the thoughts, feelings, dreams and tics of the Iranian youth declined to the masculine, accompanying us in the most unusual, dim, picturesque and melancholic corners of the capital, from slums in the upper districts. A true portrait that overflows with tenderness and irony.

translation from the Persian by Giacomo Longhi