Kader Abdolah is the author of My Father’s Notebook and more recently, The House of the Mosque.
Born in Iran in 1954, Kader Abdolah is a pen name created to honor friends who died under the oppressive Iranian regime. While a student of Physics in Tehran, the author joined a secret leftist party that fought against the dictatorship of the shah and subsequently the ayatollahs. He arrived in the Netherlands as a political refugee in 1988. Both his books are written in Dutch.
Both his novels are set during the Iran revolution and the triumphs and tragedies faced by the families he created in these stories. The author writes with both sensitivity and intelligence, from a place of deep compassion for his characters and the tumultuous times in which they live.
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