Blind Owl Audiobook Libro.fm

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A new English translation of one of the most important controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth century

A Penguin Classic

Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century Blind Owl tells a twopart story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality In first person the narrator offers a string of hazy dreamlike recollections fueled by opium and alcohol He spends time painting the exact same scene on the covers of pen cases an old man wearing a cape and turban sitting under a cypress tree separated by a small stream from a beautiful woman in black who offers him a water lily In a onepage transition the reader finds the narrator covered in blood and waiting for the police to arrest him In part two readers glimpse the grim realities that unlock the mysteries of the first part In a new translation that reflects Hedayats conversational confessional tone Blind Owl joins the ranks of classics by Edgar Allan Poe Franz Kafka and Fyodor Dostoyevsky that explore the dark recesses of the human psyche