My Uncle Napoleon Christof Wegelin including Eugene Atget and Berenice

including Eugene Atget and Berenice Abbott

is the companion to this title

In this issue--which includes poems by Charles Simic and Ellen Bryant Voigt

Winner of the 2013 Costa First Novel Award (under the title The Shock of the Fall) While on vacation with their parents

My Uncle Napoleon Christof Wegelin including Eugene Atget and BereniceA teenage boy makes the mistake of falling in love with the much protected daughter of his uncle, mischievously nicknamed after his hero Napoleon Bonaparte, the curmudgeonly self appointed patriarch of a large and extended Iranian family in 1940s Tehran. This edition features an introduction by author and literature professor Azar Nafisi, an informative preface by the translator, a list of characters, a map of Iran, a glossary of terms, an afterward