Sadegh Hedayat was Iran's most renowned modern fiction writer, and his spine-tingling novel The Blind Owl is considered his seminal work. A classic of modern Iranian literature, this edition is presented to contemporary audiences with a new introduction by Porochista Khakpour, one of the most exciting voices from a new generation of Iranian-American authors.

A haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation, The Blind Owl tells the story of a young opium addict's despair after losing a mysterious lover. Through a series of intricately woven events that revolve around the same set of mental images-an old man with a spine-chilling laugh, four cadaverous black horses with rasping coughs, a hidden urn of poisoned wine--the narrator is compelled to record his obsession with a beautiful woman even as it drives him further into frenzy and madness.

AUTHOR

Sadegh Hedayat

Sag-e velgard (The Stray Dog) By Sadegh Hedayat: Bilingual English/Farsi

The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl (Authorized by The Sadegh Hedayat Foundation - First Translation into English Based on the Bombay Edition)

Se Ghatreh Khoon ( Persian Edition ): Three Drops of Blood

The Blind Owl: Authorized by the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation - First Translation into English Based on the Bombay Edition