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 |