Translation is an art form as old as language and literature itself. It paved the way for these works to be rendered into other languages, and with the emergence of new literary genres—such as the novel—in the twentieth century, translation criticism arose as a new discipline devoted to examining various translations and identifying their strengths and weaknesses. This discipline emerged from the Western world alongside other theories of literary criticism. Antoine Berman, one of France’s renowned theorists of translation, proposed his theory of the deforming tendencies in the translation of texts, offering translation critics a new perspective from which to approach translation criticism. Hamidreza Mohajerani’s Persian translation of The Minor Death, the Arabic Booker Prize–winning novel by the Saudi author Mohammed Hasan Alwan, has proven successful. By applying the principles of Berman’s translation criticism—particularly the tendencies toward textual deformation, including rationalization, clarification, expansion, quantitative impoverishment, and embellishment—to examples drawn from Mohajerani’s translation of The Minor Death, this research concludes that he is a target-oriented translator. Through deleting or adding words and sentences, repositioning them, embellishing the text with rhetorical devices, and altering word structures in translation, among other strategies, he favored the target text and, to some extent, departed from the norms of the source text. In doing so, he achieved his aim of making the work more accessible and comprehensible to the Persian-speaking reader. Among these tendencies, rationalization occurs with the highest frequency in the translation, while quantitative impoverishment occurs with the lowest.