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My Father's Notebook
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My Father's Notebook
A father-son tale set amid the tumultous history of twentieth-century Iran, written by a masterful Iranian novelist in exile.
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When he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the illegitimate, deaf-mute son of a Persian nobleman, travelled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountain. Once there, he was to transcribe a cuneiform inscription over three thousand years old.
Decades later, his son, Ishmael - a political dissident in exile - attempts to translate a notebook filled with a private language made from this ancient script... and in the process, tells his father's story, his own, and the story of twentieth-century Iran.
My Father's Notebook is at once a masterful chronicle of a culture's troubled voyage into modernity and the heart-rending, timeless tale of a son's enduring love.
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This novel is lauded for its poignant and affectionate storytelling, capturing the longing for a lost homeland. It is characterised by its touching and amusing detail, blending the cadence of a fairy tale with the clarity of truth. The author's subtle and natural ease as a storyteller is highlighted, along with his ability to interweave Persian and Dutch literary elements effectively. This intricate and playful novel has been praised as a gift to English readers.
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ISBN: 9781786898982
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 November 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Canons
Edition: Main - Canons
Contributors:
- Translated by Susan Massotty
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 226g
Pages: 336
About the Author
Kader Abdolah (a pen name created in memoriam to friends who died under the persecution of the current Iranian regime) was born in Iran in 1954. While a student of physics in Tehran, he joined a secret leftist party that fought against the dictatorship of the shah and the subsequent dictatorship of the ayatollahs. Abdolah wrote for an illegal journal and clandestinely published two books in Iran. In 1988, at the invitation of the United Nations, he arrived in the Netherlands as a political refugee. He now writes in Dutch and is the author of novels, short stories and works of non-fiction.
Susan Massotty is a translator of Dutch into English. She has translated works by Kader Abdolah and Margriet de Moor, as well as Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl. She won the Vondel Prize for My Father's Notebook.
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