Pezeshkzad, Iraj
Summary: The story of a family in Tehran in the 1940s under the tyranny of a paranoid patriarch and of the narrator's love for his cousin in the midst of numerous manipulative family members.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEZHedāyat, Ṣādegh
Summary: "Originally written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story, an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries from the depths of the reader's subconscious. A young man, an old man and a beautiful young girl perform, as if framed within a Persian miniature, a ritual of destruction as gradually the narrator, and the reader, discover the meaning hidden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010