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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.
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.
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''A gift both to readers fascinated by other cultures and to lovers of fiction for fiction s sake.'' --The Washington Post Book World
''Readers can gain a more balanced impression of Iran from this novel, which looks at life from the kind of humorous perspective few Westerners may associate with the current regime in that country.'' --The Christian Science Monitor
''Howlingly funny . . . [a] tender, salacious and magical Iranian import'' --Cleveland Plain Dealer
''Readers can gain a more balanced impression of Iran from this novel, which looks at life from the kind of humorous perspective few Westerners may associate with the current regime in that country.'' --The Christian Science Monitor
''Howlingly funny . . . [a] tender, salacious and magical Iranian import'' --Cleveland Plain Dealer
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''Readers can gain a more balanced impression of Iran from this novel, which looks at life from the kind of humorous perspective few Westerners may associate with the current regime in that country.'' --The Christian Science Monitor
''Howlingly funny . . . [a] tender, salacious and magical Iranian import'' --Cleveland Plain Dealer
''Readers can gain a more balanced impression of Iran from this novel, which looks at life from the kind of humorous perspective few Westerners may associate with the current regime in that country.'' --The Christian Science Monitor
''Howlingly funny . . . [a] tender, salacious and magical Iranian import'' --Cleveland Plain Dealer
Iraj Pezeshkzad was born in Tehran, Iran in 1928 and was educated in Iran and France, where he received his degree in Law. He served as a judge in the Iranian Judiciary for five years prior to joining the Iranian Foreign Service. He served as a diplomat until the Iranian revolution in 1979, and left the Foreign Service to reside in France after the revolution.
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- PublisherMage Publishers
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0934211485
- ISBN 13 9780934211482
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages528
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