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My Father's Notebook

By Kader Abdolah

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My Father's Notebook

By Kader Abdolah

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
334
Release Date:
2007-03-27
Publication Date:
2007-03-27
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0060598727
ISBN13:
9780060598723
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
279 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
202 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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