My Father's Notebook - A Novel of Iran

Zusatztext "Remarkable . . . Moving! dreamlike . . . Scenes are beautifully rendered." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kader Abdolah
• Mitarbeit: Susan Massotty (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Harper Perennial USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.03.2007
• EAN: 9780060598723
• ISBN: 978-0-06-059872-3
• Seiten: 336
• Abmessung: 125 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Serie: Harper Perennial
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Iranische (Persische) SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Iran : Belletristik (Romane, Erzählungen), Historical fiction, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION: Political, FICTION: Disabilities & Special Needs, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction