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Deaf-mute boy's script bridges generations, cultures.
If history and personal narratives fascinate you, "My Father's Notebook" could truly resonate with you. It merges the intimate struggles of a family with the broader sweep of 20th-century Iran's tumultuous changes. Ishmael's quest to understand his father's silent world through a unique script is as much about piecing together a personal identity as it is about confronting national upheaval. This book might offer you a tender, compelling bridge between past and present.
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2007)
- E. du Perronprijs (2000)
- Vondel Prize for Susan Massotty (2007)
- Metų verstinė knyga Nominee (2011)
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ISBN: 9781841959276
Authors:
Kader Abdolah
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Date of Publication: 2007-01-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.88
(rated by 2950 readers)
Description
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.
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Deaf-mute boy's script bridges generations, cultures.
If history and personal narratives fascinate you, "My Father's Notebook" could truly resonate with you. It merges the intimate struggles of a family with the broader sweep of 20th-century Iran's tumultuous changes. Ishmael's quest to understand his father's silent world through a unique script is as much about piecing together a personal identity as it is about confronting national upheaval. This book might offer you a tender, compelling bridge between past and present.
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2007)
- E. du Perronprijs (2000)
- Vondel Prize for Susan Massotty (2007)
- Metų verstinė knyga Nominee (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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