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.
| ISBN: | 9781786898982 |
| Publication date: | 4th November 2021 |
| Author: | Kader Abdolah |
| Publisher: | Canongate an imprint of Canongate Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | Canons |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Fiction in translation |
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.
My Father's Notebook features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction in translation
My Father's Notebook is available in Paperback, Ebook
My Father's Notebook was written by Kader Abdolah and published by Canongate an imprint of Canongate Books
My Father's Notebook has 336 pages
Yes it is part of Canons series
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