When he was a boy,Aga Akbar,the illegitimate,deaf 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.
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781786898982Number of pages: 336Weight: 226 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mmEdition: Main - Canons
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This poignant,affectionate and beautifully told tale reflects a longing for a lost homelandBeautifully evoked in often touching and amusing detail...My Father's Notebook is an intriguing,complex and often playful novel that deserves attentionMy Father's Notebook,a lovely novel,has the cadence of a fairy tale and the clarity of truthA storyteller of utmost subtlety and natural easeWith seamlessly interwoven quotations from Persian and Dutch literature,deft storytelling and affectionate humour,he offers the reader buoyancy as well as weight. My Father's Notebook is a gift to English readers(A) powerful meditation...A moving elegy for a lost father and homeland,but also a voice raised against all forms of repression...My Father's Notebook reads like a detective storyKader Abdolah weaves Sufi myths,political intrigue and biography into a charming meditation on the relationship between father and son...a moving account of one man's life that serves as a fascinating reflection on conflicts between religion and politics,homeland and exile,the past and the present
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