
My Father's Notebook
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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.
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beautifully evoked in often touching and amusing detail My Father's Notebook is an intriguing, complex and often playful novel that deserves attention * * Scotland on Sunday * * With 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 * * The Independent * * 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 story: information is withheld so that we gradually discover the background to Ishmael's exile. * * The Guardian * *More details
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Susan Massotty is a translator of Dutch into English. She has translated works by Kader Abdolah and Margriet de Moor, as well as Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl. She won the Vondel Prize for My Father's Notebook.
Content
- Intro
- Book I: The Cave
- The Cave
- The Train
- A Wife
- The Well
- Isfahan
- A New Wife
- Book II: New Ground
- New Ground
- Moving
- A Woman In A Hat
- Mossadegh
- The Tuti
- Golden Bell
- On Your Own Two Feet
- Giant Shadows
- The Dutch Dunes
- Jamileh
- The Mahdi
- Akbar No Longer Wants To Be Deaf And Dumb
- The Days Rush Past
- Mount Damavand
- The End Of The Road
- A Christmas Tree In Akbar's Notebook
- Book III: The Cave
- A New Road
- Footprints
- The Cuneiform Notebook
- Glossary
- Acknowledgments
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