Kader Abdolah

The King

Übersetzung: Forest-Flier, Nancy

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Produktbeschreibung

An extraordinary novel about the making of modern Iran - Kader Abdolah's The King, already a bestseller in Europe, is now published in English for the first time

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 174mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9780857862969
• ISBN-10: 0857862960
• Artikelnr.: 41492800

Autorenporträt

Kader Abdolah (a pen name created in memoriam to friends who died under persecution by the current Iranian regime) was born in Iran in 1954. While a student of physics in Tehran, he joined a secret leftist party that fought against the dictatorship of the shah and the subsequent dictatorship of the ayatollahs. Abdolah wrote for an illegal journal and clandestinely published two books in Iran. In 1988, he arrived in the Netherlands as a political refugee. Kader Abdolah is the author of several books, including the novels My Father's Notebook, The House of the Mosque and most recently The King which has been longlisted for the 2016 International DUBLIN Literary Award. He has received several awards, including the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres decoration in 2008. Nancy Forest-Flier is an American-born translator who has made her home in the Netherlands with her husband, the writer Jim Forest.

Rezensionen

The King is utterly fabulous in both senses of the word: a sly, witty, knowing fable, full of charm and humour. Deceptively simple in its storytelling, it reads like one of Angela Carter's fairy tales transposed into the nineteenth-century Qajar Persian court. Kader Abdolah is a masterful and completely addictive storyteller WILLIAM DALRYMPLE