The Colonel
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品牌: Mahmoud DowlatabadiTom Patterdale
基本信息出版社:Melville House (2012年5月8日)平装:256页正文语种:英语ISBN:1612191320条形码:9781612191324商品重量:222 gASIN:1612191320亚马逊热销商品排名:图书商品里排第440,204名 (查看图书商品销售排行榜)第19位-图书>进口原版书>Literature & Fiction（文学与虚构类）>Genre Fiction（类型小说）>Political您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介A new novel by a master of Iranian letters—often rumored to be a contender for the Nobel Prize—that directly engages politics in Iran today
Ten years in the writing, this fearless novel—so powerful it’s banned in Iran—tells the stirring story of a tortured people forced to live under successive oppressive regimes.
It begins on a pitch black, rainy night, when there’s a knock on the Colonel’s door. Two policemen have come to summon him to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter. The Islamic Revolution is devouring its own children. Set over the course of a single night, the novel follows the Colonel as he pays a bribe to recover his daughter’s body and then races to 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 leaves no taboo unbroken.媒体推荐"A demanding and richly composed book by a novelist who stands apart. "
—Kirkus Reviews
“It’s about time everyone even remotely interested in Iran read this novel.”
—The Independent
“Beautifully and incisively rendered, and imbued throughout with hope.”
—Publishers Weekly
“An outstanding master achievement.”
—Der Spiegel