Sadegh Hedayat's most famous work is a deeply haunting and disturbing gem of world literature, a classic tale that defies any attempt to tie down a single interpretation.
The story is narrated by a young man, a painter of miniatures, whose name we never learn. We are slowly drawn into his hallucinatory and confused world, a world in which a beautiful young woman, an old man and a cypress tree become the recurring motifs. As definitions begin to blur, so the vision soars.
'Blind Owl' ranks as one of the most mysterious, macabre and poetic works of twentieth-century fiction.
