When he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the deaf-mute illegitimate son of a Persian nobleman, traveled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountain. Once there, he was to copy a three-thousand-year-old cuneiform inscription—an order of the first king of Persia—as a means of freeing himself from his emotional confinement. For the remainder of his life, Aga Akbar used these cuneiform characters to fill a notebook with writings only he could understand. Years later, his son, Ishmael—a political dissident in exile—is attempting to translate the notebook . . . and in the process tells his fathers story, his own, and the story of twentieth-century Iran. A stunning and ambitious novel by a singular literary talent, My Fathers Notebook is at once a masterful chronicle of a cultures troubled voyage into modernity and the poignant, timeless tale of a sons enduring love.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:45:14 +0000
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