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Tup-e Morvari [The Pearl Cannon]
Sadeq Hedayat
This book has been banned in Iran since its inception and has not had a chance to be
widely read and appreciated. This edition reveals Hedayat's motive for writing the piece.
It shows that behind the rambling and the disarray, there is a sobering theme: power. As a
symbol for power, the pearl cannon changes hands and with it, power shifts from one
oppressive group to another. If the Iranian shahs are ridiculed, so are the Islamic clergy
who, having rivaled them through centuries, have sought to uproot the Iranian identity.
The 1979 Iranian revolution vindicates the assertions which Hedayat, tongue in-cheek, made
here decades earlier.
Specifications:
1986: xxxix+165pp., notes.
Persian Language Publications Series, No 1
ISBN:0-939214-05-9 (paper): $9.95
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Winter Sleep
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