The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century
"God forbid, I've fallen in love with Layli!" So begins the farce
of our narrator's life, one spent in a large extended Iranian
family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear
Uncle Napoleon. When Uncle Napoleon's least-favorite nephew falls
for his daughter, Layli, family fortunes are reversed, feuds fired
up and resolved, and assignations attempted and thwarted.
First published in Iran in the 1970s and adapted into a hugely
successful television series, this beloved novel is now "Suggested
Reading" in Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran. My Uncle
Napoleon is a timeless and universal satire of first love and
family intrigue.