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A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his children, who had joined the different factions of the 1979 revolution. There is a knock on the door. Two young policemen have come to summon the Colonel to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter and bury her before sunrise. The Islamic Revolution, like every other revolution in history, is devouring its own children. And whose fault is that? This shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian left over the last fifty years does not leave one taboo unbroken.
- Sales Rank: #855269 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-08-15
- Released on: 2015-08-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
"My Children, Oh My Poor Children"
By Foster Corbin
I read THE COLONEL after having read a review recently in the "New York Times" mostly because I am always intrigued when works of fiction are suppressed and also know practically nothing about modern Iran. (I believe I have only read one other book on the subject, Azar Nafisi's fantastic nonfiction book READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN.) According to the NYT review and as I later read in the extensive Afterward to the novel provided by the translator Tom Patterdale, the Iranian Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's novel that he worked on for over twenty years has yet to be published in his native land. In the words of Patterdale: "The descriptions of torture are taken from the experiences of the author himself, or from those of his friends. It comes as no surprise to learn that THE COLONEL has never appeared in its original language in the author's native country. The manuscript remains In the hands of the censor, who has demanded a number of deletions and revisions, which the author has refused to make."
Although reading this rather short (220 pages) novel takes some effort, the results are worth your trouble. For example, the story does not unfold in a linear manner and is told through a third person narrator with juxtapositions of the un-named colonel's voice in italics. Patterdale also states that while Dowlatabadi is essentially self-educated that he has read widely including the "great Persian poets like Hafiz and Rumi." One wonders if he is also influenced by the South American giants of magic realism since he uses that technique in this novel. The passage where his dead wife Forouz--how she met her death is one of the many interesting paradoxes of this complex novel-- prepares the body of the colonel's and her fourteen-year-old daughter Parvaneh for burial is a brilliant and beautiful example. (I am hardly giving away the plot here since anyone who reads the book blurb finds out before beginning this novel that his precious daughter is murdered .)
The novel is awash with beautiful language that often is poetic. Metaphors abound: "He [the colonel] had not even prevented Parvaneh, the youngest of his children, from plowing her own furrow." "My eyelids [the colonel's] felt like dried bricks rubbing together." One character has "gimlet eyes"; another looks like "a dejected shepherd whose flock has been attacked by a pack of wolves." Then there are whole paragraphs that become an extended metaphor: "Parvaneh had been young and the colonel could not imagine her without her grey school smock. He could even picture the outline of her bony shoulders through it. So much about Parvaneh reminded the colonel of the little canary, which from the first day, he had named after her. Perhaps he had become so attached to his motherless daughter through having had to bring her up on his own, loving her both as father and as a mother. He saw her as a fledgling that he was teaching how to fly. He had once heard that young birds lose their way in storms, especially at dusk, and get blown off course into unfamiliar country. He saw all her comings and goings in this light and, when she disappeared, he imagined that the wind had carried her off and lost her."
Although Mr. Patterdale suggests in his informative Afterward that the colonel's five children "represent the divergent political tendencies of the [Iran] revolution" (the colonel had served in the army of the last Shah), the novel can also be read on one level as a father's all consuming concerns for his many very different children. It is certainly a novel well worth reading.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
powerful
By Masoud
Mr. Dowlatabadi in his interview said that he was crushed under the power of sadness he was describing in this novel, which is true. Very powerful and sad story about few generation who was crushed by revolution in Iran.
I lived in that circumstances and witnessed that era, and this novel brought back all that memories again.
This is a story about "a colonel" who admires "The Colonel" who is a historic revolutionary figure in recent history of Iran who was killed by central government. Our "colonel" the central figure has several children who in different ways "swallowed" by revolution.
He describes the brutal circumstances very vividly.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Powerful Story
By M. B. Rahimparast
Like his other books, Mahmood D.'s 'colonel' is rivetting and spell binding in the authors's power of description and creation of his lead personality, and then the development of the plot. Can't wait to see his next book. Best wishes for the author.
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