Description
On a pitch-black, rainy night, a knock at the Colonel’s door sets in motion a desperate search for his youngest daughter’s body—an act that quickly becomes a reckoning with the machinery of fear and control in Iran. As he navigates bribery, bureaucracy, and the brutal aftermath of successive regimes, the Colonel’s grief expands into rage and guilt, revealing how political upheaval can fracture a family across generations. Through the lives and fates of his children—shaped by revolution, torture, war, and opportunism—the novel explores the long shadow of oppression and the moral cost of survival. Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s masterful, politically charged storytelling—ten years in the making—turns one night into a sweeping meditation on nation, history, and the intimate consequences of power.
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paperback
Melville House
Published Jan 1, 2012
247 pages
ISBN: 9781612191324
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First Published
2012
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi.