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- Author: Ghazaleh Alizadeh
- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- ISBN-10: 0815602944
- ISBN-13: 9780815602941
- Format: 15.6 x 22.6 x 2.1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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"Like all revolutions, this one too has led to a regime more despotic than the one it replaced." So observes an omniscient narrator in Ghazaleh Alizadeh's monumental novel The House of the Edrisis, offering a darkly comedic glimpse at the aftermath of an unnamed twentieth-century uprising. In this concluding volume, the revolutionary tumult that has consumed the aristocratic Edrisi family and their opulent mansion shows no signs of abating.
As a ragtag band of squatters-turned-rulers consolidates power through surveillance and intimidation, the novel's eccentric cast of characters is forced to reckon with upended social orders. Erstwhile revolutionaries become complicit enforcers of a new authoritarian regime, their lofty slogans of liberation curdling into doublespeak. At the center of this story stands the ancestral Edrisi manor--a fading palace that seems to contain multitudes. Its once-vibrant gardens and courtyards, rendered in lush descriptive passages, now serve as haunted stages for madness, romance, violence, and philosophical reflection in turn. Lauded as a crowning achievement of modern Persian literature, this first-ever English translation of The House of the Edrisis in two volumes offers an unforgettable immersion in one writer's vision of the perils and pathos of a world remade by revolution.EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
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- Author: Ghazaleh Alizadeh
- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- ISBN-10: 0815602944
- ISBN-13: 9780815602941
- Format: 15.6 x 22.6 x 2.1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
"Like all revolutions, this one too has led to a regime more despotic than the one it replaced." So observes an omniscient narrator in Ghazaleh Alizadeh's monumental novel The House of the Edrisis, offering a darkly comedic glimpse at the aftermath of an unnamed twentieth-century uprising. In this concluding volume, the revolutionary tumult that has consumed the aristocratic Edrisi family and their opulent mansion shows no signs of abating.
As a ragtag band of squatters-turned-rulers consolidates power through surveillance and intimidation, the novel's eccentric cast of characters is forced to reckon with upended social orders. Erstwhile revolutionaries become complicit enforcers of a new authoritarian regime, their lofty slogans of liberation curdling into doublespeak. At the center of this story stands the ancestral Edrisi manor--a fading palace that seems to contain multitudes. Its once-vibrant gardens and courtyards, rendered in lush descriptive passages, now serve as haunted stages for madness, romance, violence, and philosophical reflection in turn. Lauded as a crowning achievement of modern Persian literature, this first-ever English translation of The House of the Edrisis in two volumes offers an unforgettable immersion in one writer's vision of the perils and pathos of a world remade by revolution.
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