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My Uncle Napoleon (Persian: دایی جان ناپلئون, Dâ'i jân Nâpel'on, literal translation: Dear Uncle Napoleon) is a coming of age novel by Iranian author Iraj Pezeshkzad published in Tehran in Persian in 1973. The novel was adapted as a TV series in 1976, directed by Nasser Taghvai.
- William L. Hanaway, Iraj Pezeshkzad, Dick Davis
- 1973
Apr 11, 2006 · When Uncle Napoleon’s least-favorite nephew falls for his daughter, Layli, family fortunes are reversed, feuds fired up and resolved, and assignations attempted and thwarted. First published in Iran in the 1970s and adapted into a hugely successful television series, this beloved novel is now “Suggested Reading” in Azar Nafisi ...
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- Modern Library
- $18
Set in a garden in Tehran in the early 1940s, where three families live under the tyranny of a paranoid patriarch, My Uncle Napoleon is a rich comic and brilliantly on-target- send-up of...
The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century “God forbid, I’ve fallen in love with Layli!”. So begins the farce of our narrator’s life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon.
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Set in a garden in Tehran in the early 1940s, where three families live under the tyranny of a paranoid patriarch, My Uncle Napoleon is a rich comic and brilliantly on-target-...
Nov 12, 2021 · My Uncle Napoleon : a novel. by. Pizishkzād, Īraj. Publication date. 1996. Topics. Iran -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. Publisher. Washington, DC : Mage Publishers.
Apr 11, 2006 · The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century. “God forbid, I’ve fallen in love with Layli!”. So begins the farce of our narrator’s life, one spent in a large extended Iranian...
