My Father's Notebook

Kader Abdolah

Translated by Susan Massotty first published 2006 Canongate Books Ltd, 2007 paperback 336 pages

On a holy mountain in the depths of Persia there is a cave with a mysterious cuneiform carving deep inside it. Aga Akbar, a deaf-mute boy from the mountain, develops his own private script from these symbols and writes passionately of his life, his family and his efforts to make sense of the changes the twentieth century brings to his country. Exiled in Holland a generation later, Akbar's son Ishmael struggles to dec...

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My Father's Notebook ebook · 2009 · Canongate Books · 9781847676337
My Father's Notebook paperback · 2007 · Canongate Books Ltd · 336 pages · 9781841959276
My Father's Notebook paperback · 2007 · Harper Perennial · 336 pages · 9780060598723
My father's notebook edition · 2006 · HarperCollins · 325 pages

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