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336 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781841959276
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Publication date: Not specified
Description
When he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the deaf-mute illegitimate son of a Persian nobleman, traveled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountain. Once there, he was to copy a three-thousand-year-old cuneiform inscription—an order of the first king...
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336 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781841959276
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Publication date: Not specified
Description
When he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the deaf-mute illegitimate son of a Persian nobleman, traveled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountain. Once there, he was to copy a three-thousand-year-old cuneiform inscription—an order of the first king...