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The colonel / Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ; translated by Tom Patterdale.

by Dawlatʹābādī, Maḥmūd.

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Melville House, [2012], c2011.

Fathers -- Fiction.

Iran -- Fiction.

Iran -- History -- Revolution, 1979 -- Fiction.

9781612191324 (pbk.)

Kolonel. English

Alternate title:

247 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published in a German translation: Zurich : Unionsverlag, 2009.

Author also known as Mahmud Dawlatabadi. Cuttered as per authority record under DAW.

Translation of: Kolonel.

Translated from the Persian.

It's a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. There is a knock on the door. Two young policemen have come to summon the Colonel to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter and bury her before sunrise. As we watch him struggle with the death of his innocent child, we find him wracked with guilt and anger over the condition of his country, particularly as represented by his own children: a son who fell during the 1979 revolution; another driven to madness after being tortured during the Shah's regime; a third who went off to martyr himself fighting for the ayatollahs in their war against Iraq; one murdered daughter, and another who survives by being married to a cruel opportunist. An incredibly powerful novel about nation, history and family,The Colonel is a startling illumination of the consequences of years of oppression and political upheaval in Iran.

Persian fiction -- Translations into English.

Historical fiction.

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