true; everything is permitted", and many references to the work in his 1959 post-modern novel, Naked Lunch, and also in his novels The Nova Express and Cities of the Red Night. Translations The novel was published in English in 2004 in a Michael Biggins translation. Earlier it was translated into about 18 other languages including Czech (1946), Serbian (1954), French (1988), Spanish (1989), Italian (1989), German (1992), Persian (1995), Arabic, Greek (2001), Korean and Slovak. More recently it has been translated into Hungarian (2005), Finnish (2008), Turkish (2010), Macedonian (2014), Lithuanian (2014), Bulgarian (2017), Portuguese (2019) and Brazilian Portuguese (2022). Written, in Persian, on the hand on the cover of the Michael Biggins translation are the words: "I Feel Sorry for the Garden No one is thinking about the flowers No one is thinking about the fish No one wants to believe that the garden is dying that the garden’s heart has swollen under the sun that the garden is slowly forgetting its green moments ..." References External links Google Books page 1938 novels Slovenian novels Assassin's Creed Order of Assassins in fiction