Kader Abdolah

My Father's Notebook (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Massotty, Susan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"My Father's Notebook reads like a detective story . . . A moving elegy for a lost father and homeland."
Guardian

Ishmael is a man separated from his history. As a young man he was driven out of his home, exiled from all he loved most by the tumultuous revolution that overwhelmed his country. Years later, thousands of miles away, his father dies. His legacy is a notebook, which finds its way into Ishmael's hands. And through it Ishmael will uncover an extraordinary story that illuminates not only his own past, but also that of Iran itself.

"Simply told . . . it shows a nation lurching into a hostile modern world and what that does to an age-old thing like the bond between a father and his son." Big Issue

"Beautifully evoked . . . [with] deft storytelling and affectionate humour." Independent

"A storyteller of the utmost subtlety and natural ease . . . a moving and conflicted tribute to a marvellous character."
Times Literary Supplement

Longlisted for the independent foreign fiction prize

Translated by Susan Massotty

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847676337
• Artikelnr.: 39499575

Autorenporträt

Kader Abdolah (a pen name created in memoriam to friends who died under the persecution of the current Iranian regime) was born in Iran in 1954. While a student of physics in Tehran, he joined a secret leftist party that fought against the dictatorship of the shah and the subsequent dictatorship of the ayatollahs. Abdolah wrote for an illegal journal and clandestinely published two books in Iran. In 1988, at the invitation of the United Nations, he arrived in the Netherlands as a political refugee. He now writes in Dutch and is the author of novels, short stories and works of non-fiction.

Susan Massotty is a translator of Dutch into English. She has translated works by Kader Abdolah and Margriet de Moor, as well as Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl. She won the Vondel Prize for My Father's Notebook.