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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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Ten years in the writing, this fearless novelβso powerful itβs banned in Iranβtells the stirring story of a tortured people forced to live under successive oppressive regimes. It begins on a pitch black, rainy night, when thereβs a knock on the Colonelβs 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 daughterβs 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 Shahβs 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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