Three Drops Of Blood

Author: Sadegh Hedayat

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Price : 19.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781847492821
Publisher : Alma Classics
Imprint : Alma Classics
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Weight (g) : 0.454
Publication date : 24 October 2012
Dimensions : .35 Inches X 5.11 Inches X 7.81 Inches
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Language : English
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The title story, Three Drops of Blood, follows the protagonist's increasingly unstable mental state through the repeated occurrence of three drops of blood, while 'Hadji Murat' depicts an almost Joycean epiphany in classically understated terms, as a man mistakes another woman for his wife. These are stories which, though set in a distinctive milieu, deal with universal truths and cut to the very essence of humanity.

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Sadeq Hedayat was born in Tehran in 1903, of an aristocratic family, and spent most of his life there. In 1951, during a stay in Paris, Hedayat committed suicide. Recognized as the outstanding Persian writer of the 20th century, Hedayat is generally credited with having brought his country's language and literature into the mainstream of contemporary writing.