{"product_id":"9781786898982","title":"My Father's Notebook","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Abdolah, Kader, Massotty, Susan \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 November 2021 by Canongate Books (Canongate Canons) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Canons' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 336 pages, No\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 25 | 230g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the illegitimate, deaf son of a Persian nobleman, travelled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountain. Once there, he was to transcribe a cuneiform inscription over three thousand years old. Decades later, his son, Ishmael - a political dissident in exile - attempts to translate a notebook filled with a private language made from this ancient script . . . and in the process tells his father's story, his own, and the story of twentieth-century Iran.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e My Father's Notebook is at once a masterful chronicle of a culture's troubled voyage into modernity and the heart-rending, timeless tale of a son's enduring love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925136343299,"sku":"9781786898982","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781786898982_4ddfc940-6f96-4fe1-ad9c-b857b1d75116.jpg?v=1731403702","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9781786898982","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}