زوال کلنل

By Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

2009

First Published

3.72

Average Rating

243

Number of Pages

7H22M

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A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his children, who had joined the different factions of the 1979 revolution. There is a knock on the door. Two young policemen have come to summon the Colonel to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter and bury her before sunrise. The Islamic Revolution, like every other revolution in history, is devouring its own children. And whose fault is that? This shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian left over the last fifty years does not leave one taboo unbroken.

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Author

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

Author · 39 books

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is an Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and his realist depictions of rural life, drawn from personal experience. برنده لوح زرین بیست سال داستان‌نویسی بر کلیه آثار، به همراه امین فقیری ۱۳۷۶ دریافت جایزه یک عمر فعالیت فرهنگی، بدر نخستین دوره جایزه ادبی یلدا به همت انتشارات کاروان و انتشارات اندیشه سازان ۱۳۸۲ برنده جایزه ادبی واو ۱۳۹۰ Award for International Literature at the House of Cultures in Berlin 2009 Nominated Asian Literary Award for the novel Collon Collin 2011 Nominated for Man Booker International prize 2011 برنده جایزه ادبی هوشنگ گلشیری برای یک عمر فعالیت ۲۰۱۲ English translation of Colonel's novel, translated by Tom Petrodill, nominee for the best translation book in America 2013 Winner of the Literary Prize Ian Millski Switzerland 2013 Knight of the Art and Literature of France 2014