No Country for Old Men

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Title: no place for old men

Author: McCarthy’s work

Translator: Amir Ahmadi Arian

Publisher: Cheshmeh

Subject: American story

Age category: Adult

Cover: Paperback

Number of pages: 286 p

Language Farsi

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 No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is a story that takes place in our time on the bloody border between Texas and Mexico.
The novel No Country for Old Men was written in 2005 by the famous American author Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy first wrote this fascinating novel as a screenplay, but later changed his mind and published it as a Western novel. This makes the writing style of this novel simple and different from other McCarthy works in terms of technique and writing style. The novel No Country for Old Men, which has a drama story, quickly gained popularity and was adapted by the Coen brothers just two years after its publication.
The title of the English novel No Country for Old Men is taken from the first line of a poem entitled Sailing to Byzantium by W. B. Yeats. The critiques that targeted this book were initially different. The Houston Chronicle praised the book and its author, while well-known literary critic Harold Bloom blamed it for the lack of an ethical debate.


Book Summary There is no place for old men
The story of No Country for Old Men takes place in 1980 in western Texas, on the border with Mexico. The story begins with Llewellyn Moss, a retired Vietnam War soldier. Everything changes when Loulin encounters a killing scene while hunting a goat. After investigating the murder scene, Loulin discovers that a van full of cocaine and a suitcase containing $ 2.4 million has been left there. He quickly picks up the suitcase and takes it home, telling his wife to go to her mother’s house until she hears.

The story unfolds from the point where Lulen is prosecuted for extortion, and the person she is looking for is none other than the heartless “Chigurh” who is hired to take back the stolen money at any cost. The sheriff of the district, who is now involved in this case, is also looking one step further behind Luilin and Chigro to prevent the possible murder of Luilin.
What happens to Loulin Moss and his wife? Will his wife survive miles from this deadly game and see her husband again?
Lulene Moss, who is hunting near the Rio Grande, encounters the bodies of men who have been shot and finds heroin and more than $ 2 million in cash. He knows that this amount of money will change everything. But it is only after the other two men are killed that a victim’s car burns, leading Sheriff Bell to a massacre in the desert, and he soon realizes how much protection Moss and his young wife need. have.

In one unsuccessful deal, one side hires a former special forces officer to defend its interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on both sides men are accustomed to dramatic violence and beatings. This chase is drawn up and down and across the border; Each side of the issue seems determined to answer what the other is asking: How does a man decide how to leave his life?
A heartbreaking story of the war that society is waging against itself and a constant meditation on love and blood relations and the duty that fills lives and shapes destinies; “No Place for Old Men” by Cormac McCarthy is a novel with resonance and extraordinary power.

A crime novel full of suspense, incident and violence. Karmak McCarthy in the novel is no place for old men tells the story of windfall money that leads to a bloody and empty end. The man accidentally finds and picks up the money, and when he realizes that the smugglers are looking for him, he runs away from them. A murderer named Shigur is hired to find the man and the money, and this is the beginning of a bloody chase.

The Coen brothers made an Oscar-winning film based on the novel in 2007.
The novel is not a place for old men has been translated by Amir Ahmadi Arian and published by Cheshmeh.
The story of the chase of an extremely ruthless professional assassin with a simple welder who accidentally made money in a suitcase is followed in three hundred breathtaking pages, and the speed of this chase is so fast that the book can not be dropped. Ultimately, the absurdity and meaninglessness of this situation is shockingly revealed by the accident of a professional killer and keeps the reader undecided. The Coen Brothers have made a successful film based on this book and won an Oscar.

A simple welder who goes hunting in the plains of South America accidentally arrives after a bloody clash between two groups of drug traffickers, earning large sums of money. After that, he had to flee for a long time in South America and Mexico to save money, and … The Coen brothers made a film based on this novel in 2007, which won this year’s Oscar. ك This book is a monster. Karmak McCarthy has achieved amazing results through a kind of step-by-step process of brutal simplicity. “This book leaves you shaky and puzzled.”
“No Place for Old Men” tells the story of the pursuit of a professional and ruthless killer.
By simple welding, he accidentally made money with a suitcase and was forced to flee for a long time in South America and Mexico to save money.
There are always and everywhere people who have a special respect for the soul of life and are hard to stick to it. In the book No Country for Old Men, Ed Tom Bell is a sheriff who adheres to the rules of life and tells his life story and describes his most difficult mission.
A mission in which two groups of drug traffickers clash and all are killed. And only the simple welding that witnessed the story survives. In this book, Cormac McCarthy depicts an extraordinary contrast between good and evil through enduring dialogue.
This book was written in 2005. The beginning of the book is mesmerizing. You realize that you are dealing with a fluid story and an eerie and ambiguous atmosphere. Everything appears slowly.
Shigur (killer) is introduced to the reader from the very beginning. McCarthy does not act stereotypes and does not hide the killer like in police and crime stories.
At the end of the story, the winner is a character, but introduces him from the beginning so that we can get to know him. Just be careful not to be overwhelmed by the fascinating atmosphere of your novel.

Parts of the book are not a place for old men
“I sent a boy to the gas room in Huntsville. Only one, no more. I arrested him and testified. I went there two or three times and met Bash. three times. The last time was the day of his execution. I did not have to go but I did. Of course I did not want to. He had killed a fourteen-year-old girl, and let me tell you right now that I had no interest in meeting the boy, let alone seeing him executed, but I did. The newspapers wrote that the crime was out of desire and he himself told me that there was no desire. “He was dating that girl, although very much.”

“I read the newspapers every morning. I want to know more about what happened around us. I never said I did my job well. Our work is getting harder day by day. Some time ago, two boys became friends. One of them was from California and one was from Florida. They must have met somewhere in the middle of the road.

Then they started traveling together and killing people. I do not remember how many people were killed. Think about how likely the two were to come together. They had not met before this incident. How many people are like this in this country? I do not think they are many. Well we do not know. The next day, they caught a woman who had thrown her baby in the trash. What kind of person might think of such a thing? My wife no longer reads the newspaper. Maybe he’s right. “Usually he’s right.”

“When the deputy got up from his chair, he removed the key ring from his belt and unlocked the desk drawer to remove the prison keys. He was slightly bent when Shigur squatted and brought his caught hands behind his knees. Then he sat down and lay on his back and raised his legs and passed the chain under his feet and stood up immediately. It was as if he had rehearsed this scene many times. He put his hands around the deputy’s neck and jumped into the air himself, hitting the back of the deputy with both knees and pulling the chain. They both fell to the ground. The deputy tried to put his hands in chains but could not. “Shigur was lying down, with his knees between his hands, and he was forcibly pressing his knees around the deputy’s neck, and his face had changed.”

Adapted from No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men in 2007 by Joel and Ethan Coen became a neo-Western thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. The film, which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, has won 76 awards so far, including four Oscars, and has been nominated for various awards 109 times. Some consider this film to be the best made by the Coen brothers.
About the author:
Born in 1933, Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. His works to date include three short stories, two plays and ten novels written in a variety of genres from the Gothic to the post-apocalyptic period. He is best known for his violent visual acuity and unique style, which has made him one of the greatest contemporary writers.
McCarthy wrote his first novel, The Orchard Keeper, in 1965, which attracted critical acclaim. After writing several other novels and winning the MacArthur genius grant, he was able to travel to the American Southwest and, after completing his research, published Blood Meridian in 1985, which is considered by many to be his best work.

He received his first National Book Award for All The Pretty Horses, which attracted critics as well as readers, and led him to write The Crossing and Cities of the Plain as a sequel to All The Pretty Horses. The three are known as border triangles. The Road also won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in fiction. McCarthy’s work has a different meaning for filmmakers, as the three books The Road, No Country for Old Men and Child of God became successful films, and a 15-minute adaptation of Outer Dark was made.
In addition to the aforementioned awards, McCarthy won the Believer Book Award in 2006 and was named one of the best James Tait Black Awards in 2012. The 86-year-old author’s next novel, The Passenger, which was announced in 2015 to be written, has not yet been published.

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