Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
The Colonel
- ISBN 13:
- 9781906598891
- author:
- Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Haus Publishing
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 220
- Dimensions:
- 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
- Genre:
- Books
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Memories are storming in for the Colonel, memories of his wife and the great patriots of the past, all assassinated or executed. His children have joined different factions of the 1979 revolution, leaving him with painful reminders of what has been lost. The sound of a knock on the door breaks the silence. Two young policemen have come to summon the Colonel to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter and bury her before sunrise. The Islamic Revolution is devouring its own children, and whose fault is that? This book is a shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian left over the last fifty years. With no taboos left unbroken, this powerful novel exposes the darker side of revolution and the human cost of ideology.
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