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The House of the Edrisis: A Novel, Volume Two

The House of the Edrisis: A Novel, Volume Two

Alizadeh, Ghazaleh
Ghanoonparvar, M. R.

Paperback

Series: Middle East Literature in Translation

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0815602944
ISBN13: 9780815602941
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Mar 17 2025
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.14 Depth: 8.89
Language: English

Like all revolutions, this one too has led to a regime more despotic than the one it replaced. So observes an omniscient narrator in Ghazaleh Alizadeh's monumental novel The House of the Edrisis, offering a darkly comedic glimpse at the aftermath of an unnamed twentieth-century uprising. In this concluding volume, the revolutionary tumult that has consumed the aristocratic Edrisi family and their opulent mansion shows no signs of abating.

As a ragtag band of squatters-turned-rulers consolidates power through surveillance and intimidation, the novel's eccentric cast of characters is forced to reckon with upended social orders. Erstwhile revolutionaries become complicit enforcers of a new authoritarian regime, their lofty slogans of liberation curdling into doublespeak. At the center of this story stands the ancestral Edrisi manor--a fading palace that seems to contain multitudes. Its once-vibrant gardens and courtyards, rendered in lush descriptive passages, now serve as haunted stages for madness, romance, violence, and philosophical reflection in turn. Lauded as a crowning achievement of modern Persian literature, this first-ever English translation of The House of the Edrisis in two volumes offers an unforgettable immersion in one writer's vision of the perils and pathos of a world remade by revolution.

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