The Prince - Hardcover

Hushang Golshiri; James Buchan

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843431718 ISBN 13: 9781843431718

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2005

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Set in 1920s in Iran. In a house in a provincial town, the last survivor of a deposed dynasty is slowly dying from tuberculosis. The old prince's domain has been reduced to his domestic household, where the glories of his ancestors haunt him. Drifting in and out of reality, he relives episodes of his forebears' exulted and often brutal past.

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Review:

"There is no denying the power of Golshiri's writing . . . This is one of the most disturbing novels I have read in a long time. It's made all the more unsettling for being sensational only in the skill of its telling."
-Rosemary Goring, "Glasgow Herald"

There is no denying the power of Golshiri s writing . . . This is one of the most disturbing novels I have read in a long time. It s made all the more unsettling for being sensational only in the skill of its telling.
Rosemary Goring, "Glasgow Herald""

From the Publisher:

Translated from the Persian by James Buchan
When this novel was first published in Iran in 1969, as Prince Ehtejab, Golshiri was immediately acclaimed as one of the first writers to apply modern literary techniques to depict the demise of the Iranian aristocracy.

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