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Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafez is in love. He is in love with a girl,
with a city, and with Persian poetry. Despite his enmity with the
new and dangerous city leader, the jealousy of his fellow court
poets, and the competition for his beloved, Iran's favorite poet
remains unbothered. When his wit and charm are not enough to keep
him safe in Shiraz, his friends conspire to keep him out of
trouble. But their schemes are unsuccessful. Nothing will chase
Hafez from this city of wine and roses. In Pezeshkzad's fictional
account, Hafez's life in fourteenth-century Shiraz is a mix of
peril and humor. Set in a city that is at once beautiful and
cutthroat, the novel includes a cast of historical figures to
illuminate this elusive poet of the Persian literary tradition.
Shabani-Jadidi and Higgins's translation brings the beloved poetry
of Hafez alive for an English audience and reacquaints readers with
the comic wit and original storytelling of Pezeshkzad.
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.
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