The Blind Owl, and Other Hedayat Stories
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780915327027 (0915327023)
Publish date: February 1st 1985
Publisher: Sorayya Publishers
Pages no: 185
Edition language: English
What started out to be a slow book found its pace and took off about a quarter of the way in. Normally this sluggish start would knock a star off my rating for the book, but the remainder was so fantastic it made up for the beginning. At first, I found the narration fairly clean and clear, somewhat ...
NO SPOILERS!!!"The Blind Owl” is considered a modern Persian classic. a masterpiece of Iranian literature. So I was intrigued. It was first self-published in Bombay and written in Farsi. It was not available in Iran in 1937, then under Reza Shah’s oppressive control. It wasn’t until 1941 that it ca...
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