False Prophet

Name: False Prophet
Price: 47.95 AUD
Availability: PreOrder
ISBN: 9781685892418

Afsheen Farhadi

$47.95

Paperback

Forthcoming
Pre-Order now

QTY:

English

Melville House Publishing
07 July 2026

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Actor Jal Persad is enjoying moderate 'where do I know you from?' success when the death of his mother, Rita, sends him into a tailspin he hadn't seen coming - after all, how could he grieve a woman he barely knew? Rita had grown up in Guyana during the rise and fall of the Jonestown cult, but never spoke of her home to Jal, always keeping him at a distance. After months of avoiding work, a misunderstanding at lunch with his manager leads Jal into a web of lies. He soon finds himself writing a memoir of his mother's adolescence, one that places her in direct contact with Jim Jones himself. There's just one issue - Rita never met the man, and Jal knows that. Suddenly, the book goes viral, and Jal must face the looming threat of exposure, and his own guilt. Alternating between Jal's rapid rise and Rita's distorted story, False Prophet confronts the intergenerational legacy of colonialism, the allure of power, and the age-old question - how much of yourself are you willing to lose to succeed?

By: Afsheen Farhadi
Imprint: Melville House Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9781685892418
ISBN 10: 1685892418
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 07 July 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Afsheen Farhadi was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and his short fiction and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, Catapult, Bright Lights Film Journal, and elsewhere. He served as the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing, Prose at Southern Methodist University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Reno.