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Sadegh Hedayat

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Sadegh Hedayat was an Iranian writer and translator. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career.

Books by Sadegh Hedayat

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The Blind Owl
Sadegh Hedayat
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An opium-addled artist descends into a hallucinatory labyrinth of obsession and dread, haunted by a mysterious lover and macabre visions, as he grapples with the unraveling threads of his own sanity.