{"product_id":"blind-owl-sadeq-hedayat-paperback","title":"Blind Owl -- Sadeq Hedayat, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth century \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the 2023 Lois Roth Persian Translation Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten 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 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 one-page 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 Hedayat's conversational, confessional tone, \u003ci\u003eBlind Owl\u003c\/i\u003e joins the ranks of classics by Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky that explore the dark recesses of the human psyche.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sadeq Hedayat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.79\" H x 5.23\" L x 0.33\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780143136583\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51737649021227,"sku":"9780143136583","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780143136583_a53a7795-0c25-4911-89bd-e66252f5178c.jpg?v=1774843703","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/blind-owl-sadeq-hedayat-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}