My Uncle Napoleon A Novel

Name: My Uncle Napoleon A Novel
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ISBN: 9780812974430

ISBN-10: 0812974433

ISBN-13: 9780812974430

Edition: 2006

Authors: Iraj Pezeshkzad, Dick Davis, Azar Nafisi

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The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century “God forbid, I’ve fallen in love with Layli!” So begins the farce of our narrator’s life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon. When Uncle Napoleon’s least-favorite nephew falls for his daughter, Layli, family fortunes are reversed, feuds fired up and resolved, and assignations attempted and thwarted. First published in Iran in the 1970s and adapted into a hugely successful television series, this beloved novel is now “Suggested Reading” in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran. My Uncle Napoleon is a timeless and universal satire of first love and…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/11/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.90" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Abolqasem Ferdowsi(9401020) is the preeminent poet in the Persian language and one of the greatest poets of his time in any language. Dick Davisis the premier translator of Persian poetry at work today. Azar Nafisiis the author of the bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran.Dick Davis is an Englishman who has lived for most of his adult life outside his own country - in Greece, Italy, Iran and the United States. He is currently a professor of Persian at Ohio State University in Columbus.

Azar Nafisi is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About. A passionate advocate of books and reading, she appears regularly on major media and speaks to packed audiences around the world. She lives in Washington, D.C.