When he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the deaf-mute illegitimate son of a Persian nobleman, traveled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountain. Once there, he was to copy a three-thousand-year-old cuneiform inscription-an order of the first king of Persia-as a means of freeing himself from his emo
My Father's Notebook
β Scribed by Abdolah, Kader
- Book ID
- 108865578
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781847676337
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Overview: Kader Abdolah is the penname of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani, an Iranian writer who also writes in Dutch. Abdolah has lived in the Netherlands since 1988.
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