Products specifications
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Author
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Kader Abdolah |
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Pub Date
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04/11/2021 |
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Binding
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Paperback / softback |
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Pages
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336 |
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Country
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United Kingdom |
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Dewey
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839.31364 |
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GBPPrice
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9.99 |
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.
