My Father s Notebook

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When he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the illegitimate, deaf-mute son of a Persian nobleman, travelled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountain. Once there, he was to transcribe a cuneiform inscription over three thousand years old. Decades later, his son, Ishmael - a political dissident in exile - attempts to translate a notebook filled with a private language made from this ancient script . . . and in the process tells his father's story, his own, and the story of twentieth-century Iran.

My Father's Notebook is at once a masterful chronicle of a culture's troubled voyage into modernity and the heart-rending, timeless tale of a son's enduring love.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781786898982
Published: November 2021

Number of pages: 336
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 20 mm

Publisher: Canongate Books