The Blind Owl

An opium addict spirals into madness after losing a mysterious lover in this “extraordinary work” of modern Persian literature ( The Times Literary Supplement , UK).   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