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  • The Blind Owl

    de Sadegh Hedayat ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Blind Owl

    de Sadegh Hedayat ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Dark Domain

    de Stefan Grabinski ...
    Traducido por Miroslaw Lipinski ...
    Dedalus have unearthed a series of aptly decadent titles where elements erotic and grotesque combine. The Dark Domain is a collection of psycho-fantasies, doom-saturated tales of lonely men lost in hostile terrain, but the East European melancholy lifts to provide wonderful odd scenes, like the watchmaker whose death stops all the town clocks and the phantom train that always turns up unannounced, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Sohrab Sepehri

    A Selection of Poems from the Eight Books

    de Bahiyeh Afnan Shahid ...
    The Iranian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri (19281980) is revered today for many of the things he was criticized for during his lifetime. Born and raised in the ancient city of Kashan, he was educated in Tehran and travelled widely. A gentle introvert by nature, he was accused of escapism when his reaction to the world around him was to go back to nature, mysticism and mythology, poetry and ... Leer más

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  • The Blind Owl and Other Stories

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Blind Owl

    de Sadeq Hedayat ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Storyteller of Marrakesh

    A Novel

    de Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya ...
    "An enigmatic fable in the tradition of 'The Thousand and One Nights.' " —Anderson Tepper, New York Times Book ReviewHassan, a storyteller, has gathered listeners in Marrakesh's fabled Jemaa el Fna to perform his annual re-creation of the night on which two foreigners mysteriously disappeared from the square. But as his audience offers contradicting testimonies, and details transform or dissolve ... Leer más

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  • Voyage to Kazohinia

    de Sandor Szathmari ...
    Traducido por Inez Kemenes ...
    A singular combination of Brave New World and Gulliver’s Travels, this is an eerily timely masterpiece of satire⎯Orwellian in its surehandedness, insights, and timelessness.For fans of satire, dystopian/utopian fiction, and sci-fi ... Leer más

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  • Pyramid Texts

    A Modern Arabic Novel

    de Gamal al-Ghitani ...
    Traducido por Humphrey Davies ...
    With its Sufistic parables of the human condition, rendered in a style redolent of both the austere meditations of Borges and the dark engorged ruminations of Arthur C. Clark, Pyramid Texts engages the mind and beguiles the imagination. In a series of chapters each shorter than the last so that, like their subjects, they taper ultimately into nothingness the author evokes the obsessions that have ... Leer más

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  • Excellent Things in Women

    A Memoir of Postcolonial Pakistan

    de Sara Suleri Goodyear ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    Sometimes, only the most heartbreaking memories possess the capacity—in their elegiac immediacy—to take our breath away. With Excellent Things in Women, Sara Suleri offers the reader a delicately wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan. Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own intimate experiences—relating the tumult of growing up female during a time ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Echoes of an Autobiography

    de Naguib Mahfouz ...
    From the Foreword by Nadine Gordimer: "These pieces are meditations which echo that which was, has been, and is the writer Mahfouz. They are--in the words of the title of one of the prose pieces--'The Dialogue of the Late Afternoon' of his life. I don't believe any autobiography, with its inevitable implication of self-presentation, could have matched what we have here."With more than 500,000 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD