Kader Abdolah (Iran, 1954) representa una llarga tradició de la literatura persa. La dictadura a lIran el força a exiliar-se i, el 1988, sestableix als Països Baixos. El viatge de les ampolles buides és la seva primera novella,...
Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a suitor to knock on the door. Her uncle Nosrat returns from Tehran with a glamorous woman, while on the rooftop, Shahbal longs only for a television to watch the...
When he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the deaf-mute illegitimate son of a Persian nobleman, traveled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountain. Once there, he was to copy a three-thousand-year-old cuneiform inscriptionâan order of the...