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  • Blind Owl

    by Sadeq Hedayat ...
    Translated by Sassan Tabatabai ...
    **A new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth centuryWinner of the 2023 Lois Roth Persian Translation AwardA Penguin Classic**Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In first person, the narrator ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Blind Owl and Other Stories

    by Sadeq Hedayat ...
    Series series Calder Publications
    Following a disjointed, vision-like structure, The Blind Owl is the nightmarish exploration of the psyche of a madman. The narrator is an ailing, solitary misanthrope who suffers from hallucinations, and his dreamlike tale is layered, circular, driven by its own demented logic, and punctuated with macabre and surreal episodes such as the discovery of a mutilated corpse, and a bizarre competition ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Blind Owl

    by Sadeq Hedayat ...
    Narrated by Sassan Tabatabai, Ramiz Monsef ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 25 min

    **A new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth centuryWinner of the 2023 Lois Roth Persian Translation AwardA Penguin Classic**Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In first person, the narrator ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Translated by D. P. Costello ...
    An opium addict spirals into madness after losing a mysterious lover in this "extraordinary work" of modern Persian literature ( The Times Literary Supplement, UK).Sadegh Hedayat was Iran's most renowned modern fiction writer, and his spine-tingling novel The Blind Owl is considered his seminal work. A classic of modern Iranian literature, this edition is presented to contemporary audiences with a ... Read more

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  • Rama and the Dragon

    Translated by Ferial Ghazoul, John Verlenden ...
    by Edwar Al-Kharrat ...
    Rama and the Dragon, a multi-layered novel about the depths of human experience and the struggle between polarities, on the surface presents a love story of unrequited passion between Rama the symbol of multiplicity and creativity and Mikhail the symbol of unity and constancy. Their story reflects the relationship not only between man and woman, Copt and Muslim, but also between Upper and Lower ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

    by Shokoofeh Azar ...
    A grieving family flees Tehran after the Islamic Revolution in this novel of "magical realism with a Persian twist" translated from Farsi (The Guardian, UK).When their home in Tehran is burned to the ground by zealots, killing their thirteen-year-old daughter Bahar, a once-prominent family flees to a small village. There, they hope to preserve both their intellectual freedom and their lives. But ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Blind Owl

    by Sadegh Hedayat ...
    Translated by Naveed Noori ...
    Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but with the turning of each page basic facts become obscure and the reader soon realizes this book is much more than a love story. Although the Blind Owl has been compared to the works of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The First Algernon Blackwood MEGAPACK®

    by Algernon Blackwood ...
    The First Algernon Blackwood MEGAPACK® collects 36 classic tales of the supernatural by one of the greatest ghost story writers of all time. More than just ghosts, however, this collection includes tales of vampires and other creatures of the night...and much, much more. Hours of great reading await!Included are:THE WILLOWSTHE WENDIGOTHE SINGULAR DEATH OF MORTONTHE OLIVEANCIENT LIGHTSTHE KIT ... Read more

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  • The Aristocrat And The Desert Prince (Yaoi Novel)

    by Haruhi Tono, Ai Hasukawa ...
    In his young life, Takeyuki has never really known hardship. The youngest son of a wealthy family, he has never had any difficulty getting anything he desired. Now, though, Takeyuki is enjoying his last month of freedom before he begins working at his father’s import company in Tokyo, and he has decided to spend that time with his brother and his sister-in-law in Cassina, a small country in the ... Read more

    $5.95 USD

  • The Second Algernon Blackwood MEGAPACK®

    by Algernon Blackwood ...
    The Second Algernon Blackwood MEGAPACK® collects 28 more classic tales of the supernatural by one of the greatest ghost story writers of all time. Included are:SKELETON LAKESMITH: AN EPISODE IN A LODGING-HOUSEA SUSPICIOUS GIFTTHE EMPTY HOUSETHE LISTENERMAY DAY EVECARLTON'S DRIVEIF THE CAP FITS—THE MAN WHO PLAYED UPON THE LEAFOLD CLOTHESTHE ECCENTRICITY OF SIMON PARNACUTETHE GOLDEN FLYTHE TR... ... Read more

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  • Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness

    by Mike Allen ...
    The first volume in the ground-breaking, genre-bending, boundary-pushing Clockwork Phoenix anthology series, at last available in digital format from Mythic Delirium Books."Lush descriptions and exotic imagery startle, engross, chill and electrify the reader, and all 19 stories have a strong and delicious taste of weird." — Publishers WeeklyIncludes critically-acclaimed and award-nominated stories ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

    by Nawal El Saadawi ...
    Series series Saqi Bookshelf
    A young Egyptian woman clashes with her traditional family when she chooses a career in medicine. Rather than submit to an arranged marriage and motherhood, she cuts her hair short and works fiercely to realise her dreams. At medical school, she begins to understand the mysteries of the human body. After years of denying her own desires, the doctor begins a series of love affairs that allow her to ... Read more

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