My Father's Notebook: A Novel of Iran

My Father's Notebook: A Novel of Iran image
ISBN-10:

0060598727

ISBN-13:

9780060598723

Author(s): Abdolah, Kader
Edition: Reprint
Released: Mar 27, 2007
Publisher: Harper-perennial
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
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Description:

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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