Brad Kessler's Birds in Fall has been translated into Persian by Shamim Hedayati.

IBNA: This brooding novel is a modern-day retelling of the Greek myth of Ceyx and Alcyone. It is the story of the survivors of a plane crash near Nova Scotia where different groups of families are joined together to pass the upcoming events.

The novel starts inside the plane. Eighty minutes into the flight, just as the jet curves over the Gulf of Maine toward Nova Scotia and the moonlit Atlantic, a few passengers sense that something's wrong. The lights flicker. There's "a curious chemical smell, not exactly burning, more like a dashboard left to bake in the sun." The narrator, an ornithologist, babbles on about birds until his seatmate, a cellist, tells him to shut up. She knows what is coming; she writes her name on her arm. The plane shudders, shakes, tumbles, explodes. And disappears into the sea. The anxiety of the passengers leads to the plane crash which itself originates a series of events.

Birds in Fall is not a plane-crash story with survivors in a remote island. It is indeed a narration of Greek mythology and historical legendry enveloped with layered anecdotes. Different nationalities including Taiwanese, Dutch and event Persian are among the survivors.

The novel is Kessler's magnum opus. It won the 2006 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was named by the Los Angeles Times one of the top ten books of the year. He is the author of another novel, Lick Creek, and his non-fiction has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Nation, Kenyon Review, and Bomb. Kessler is the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Whiting Writer's Award. He lives with his wife, the photographer Dona Ann McAdams, in Vermont, where they raise a small herd of dairy goats and produce cheese.

Nila publication center has published the Persian rendition of the book in the Iranian market.

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