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Melville House
May 2012
On Sale: May 8, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 1612191320
EAN: 9781612191324
Kindle: B005MU3V3Q
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Fiction
Ten years in the writing, this fearless novel—so powerful
it’s banned in Iran—tells the stirring story of a tortured
people forced to live under successive oppressive regimes.
It begins on a pitch black, rainy night, when there’s a
knock on the Colonel’s door. Two policemen have come to
summon him to collect the tortured body of his youngest
daughter. The Islamic Revolution is devouring its own
children. Set over the course of a single night, the novel
follows the Colonel as he pays a bribe to recover his
daughter’s body and then races to bury her before sunrise. As we watch him struggle with the death of his innocent
child, we find him wracked with guilt and anger over the
condition of his country, particularly as represented by his
own children: a son who fell during the 1979 revolution;
another driven to madness after being tortured during the
Shah’s regime; a third who went off to martyr himself
fighting for the ayatollahs in their war against Iraq; one
murdered daughter, and another who survives by being married
to a cruel opportunist. An incredibly powerful novel about nation, history and
family, The Colonel is a startling illumination of the
consequences of years of oppression and political upheaval
in Iran.
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