Gosh, this book is grim. It starts with the colonel being summoned from his house in the middle of a rainy night to collect the tortured body of his daughter from the secret police, and he is told to bury her before daybreak to avoid any kind of attention. The story of that night and […]
Posts tagged with ‘Iran’
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
17 April 2009 – 2:35 pm
My thoughts about a graphic novel/autobiography about life in Iran. Short version: I liked it.
My Father’s Notebook by Kader Abdolah
13 September 2008 – 8:04 am
Kader Abdolah left Iran as a political refugee, having been part of a leftist political party that opposed first the Shah and then the ayatollahs. He has lived in the Netherlands since 1988 and My Father’s Notebook is actually a translation (by Susan Massotty) from Dutch. Despite that, I’m counting it for Iran for the Read The World […]