My Father's Notebook

von Kader Abdolah

334 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Harper Perennial
• ISBN: 9780060598723
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.03.2007
• Größe: 202 x 128 mm
• Verlag: HarperCollins