Kader Abdolah: My Father's Notebook, Kartoniert / Broschiert
My Father's Notebook
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- Verlag:
- HarperCollins, 03/2007
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780060598723
- Artikelnummer:
- 2536077
- Umfang:
- 334 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2007
- Gewicht:
- 279 g
- Maße:
- 202 x 128 mm
- Stärke:
- 24 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 27.3.2007
- Serie:
- Harper Perennial
- Hinweis
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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.
Biografie
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 Teheran, 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 three novels and two collections of short stories, as well as works of nonfiction.