{"product_id":"blind-owl-by-sadeq-hedayat-9780143136583","title":"Blind Owl","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlind Owl\u003c\/em\u003e is a new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2023 Lois Roth Persian Translation Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Penguin Classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, \u003cem\u003eBlind Owl\u003c\/em\u003e tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In the 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eBlind Owl\u003c\/em\u003e joins the ranks of classics by Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky that explore the dark recesses of the human psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016420606188,"sku":"9780143136583","price":43.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26167813482238.jpg?v=1763593490","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/blind-owl-by-sadeq-hedayat-9780143136583","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}