Blind Owl Av Sadeq Hedayat

<p><i>Blind Owl, </i>Sadeq Hedayat''s masterpiece, tells the story of a young pen-case painter and his heartbreak. Isolated and alone, he mourns the loss of a mysterious love while descending into recollections and dreams frosted over by opium and alcohol, and imbued with the images he paints: an old man, a cypress tree, a beautiful woman, a waterlily. In stark, lyrical terms, the puzzle of the pen-case painter''s grief is slowly unveiled ...<br><br>As inscrutable as it is universal, <i>Blind Owl</i> is the seminal work of Persian modernism, and one of the great novels of the twentieth century.</p>