My Father's Notebook: A Novel of Iran - Brossura

Abdolah, Kader

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ISBN 10: 0060598727 ISBN 13: 9780060598723

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2007

Riassunto

When he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the deaf-mute illegitimate son of a Persian nobleman, traveled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountain. Once there, he was to copy a three-thousand-year-old cuneiform inscription—an order of the first king of Persia—as a means of freeing himself from his emotional confinement. For the remainder of his life, Aga Akbar used these cuneiform characters to fill a notebook with writings only he could understand. Years later, his son, Ishmael—a political dissident in exile—is attempting to translate the notebook . . . and in the process tells his father's story, his own, and the story of twentieth-century Iran.

A stunning and ambitious novel by a singular literary talent, My Father's Notebook is at once a masterful chronicle of a culture's troubled voyage into modernity and the poignant, timeless tale of a son's enduring love.

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Recensione:

“A field guide to present day Iran... MY FATHER’S NOTEBOOK is a winning, courtly tale of Persian culture.” (Buffalo News)

“Wonderful... Blends contemporary realism with Persian folklore, mirroring Iran’s... history through the eyes of a father and his son.” (Houston Chronicle)

“MY FATHER’S NOTEBOOK, a lovely novel, has the cadence of a fairy tale and the clarity of truth .” (Wall Street Journal)

“A storyteller of utmost subtlety and natural ease.” (Times Literary Supplement)

“Moving and illuminating . . . The history of Iran in the 20th century glints through.” (Publishers Weekly)

“An intimate portrait... Abdolah’s prose... is clean and lyrical... A sweeping novel that chronicles the tumultuous modern history of [Iran].” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Myth and unlovely reality meet and mingle... Conveys the heartache of an exile who cannot help but feel a traitor.” (Christian Science Monitor)

“Beautiful and poetic.” (Library Journal)

“Remarkable . . . Moving, dreamlike . . . Scenes are beautifully rendered.” (Providence Journal)

L'autore:

Kader Abdolah is a pen name created to honor friends who died under the oppressive Iranian regime. The author of three novels, two short story collections, and numerous works of nonfiction, Abdolah joined a secret leftist organization while a student in Teheran. In 1988, at the invitation of the United Nations, he came to the Netherlands as a political refugee.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060598727
• ISBN 13: 9780060598723
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 323