My Uncle Napoleon

The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century <p/>God forbid I've fallen in love with Layli! So begins the farce of our narrator's life one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering paranoid patriarch Dear Uncle Napoleon. When Uncle Napoleon's least-favorite nephew falls for his daughter Layli family fortunes are reversed feuds fired up and resolved and assignations attempted and thwarted. <p/>First published in Iran in the 1970s and adapted into a hugely successful television series this beloved novel is now Suggested Reading in Azar Nafisi's <i>Reading Lolita in Tehran.</i> <b>My Uncle Napoleon </b>is a timeless and universal satire of first love and family intrigue.