My Uncle Napoleon
by Iraj Pezeshkzad
A paranoid patriarch convinced the British are out to get him.
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Dear Uncle Napoleon is convinced that everything bad that has ever happened to him — and everything bad that will happen — is the result of British conspiracy. His extended family thinks he's delusional. He may not be entirely wrong. Pezeshkzad's 1973 novel became the most beloved Iranian novel of the 20th century — a satire of a specific kind of Iranian paranoia that has its roots in actual British interference in Iranian affairs. Hilarious, sharp, and more politically accurate than it pretends to be.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Iran • Middle East
- Voice
- Written by a Iranian author
- Themes
- Laughing at Empire
