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Blind Owl

โœ Scribed by Sadeq Hedayat; Sassan Tabatabai; Sassan Tabatabai

Book ID
112173855
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2022
Tongue
en-US
Weight
397 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780143136583

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โœฆ Synopsis

A new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth century
A Penguin Classic
Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In first person, the narrator offers a string of hazy, dreamlike recollections fueled by opium and alcohol. He spends time painting the exact same scene on the covers of pen cases: an old man wearing a cape and turban sitting under a cypress tree, separated by a small stream from a beautiful woman in black who offers him a water lily. In a one-page transition, the reader finds the narrator covered in blood and waiting for the police to arrest him. In part two, readers glimpse the grim realities that unlock the mysteries of the first part. In a new translation that reflects Hedayat's conversational, confessional tone, Blind Owl joins the ranks of...

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