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SUMMARY:SPOOKS & BOOKS CLUB!
LOCATION:O’Neal Library\n<p>5520B Crestwood Blvd</p>\n<p>Birmingham
 \, AL 35212</p>
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DESCRIPTION:A book group discussion of BLIND OWL by Sadeq Hedayat at Thank
  You Books\n.\nhttps://emmetoneal.libnet.info/event/9005301
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Thank You Books</strong> and<stron
 g> Under the Mountain</strong> are thrilled to invite you to their first b
 ook club collaboration! Join us on Sunday\, October 22\, 2023 at Thank You
  Books storefront in Crestwood for a discussion of <strong>BLIND OWL</stro
 ng>\, one of the most celebrated 20th-century literary works from Iran.</p
 >\n<p><em>Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth 
 century\, </em><strong>Blind Owl</strong> <em>tells a two-part story of an
  isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In f
 irst person\, the narrator offers a string of hazy\, dreamlike recollectio
 ns fueled by opium and alcohol. He spends time painting the exact same sce
 ne on the covers of pen cases: an old man wearing a cape and turban sittin
 g under a cypress tree\, separated by a small stream from a beautiful woma
 n in black who offers him a water lily. In a one-page transition\, the rea
 der finds the narrator covered in blood and waiting for the police to arre
 st him. In part two\, readers glimpse the grim realities that unlock the m
 ysteries of the first part. In a new translation that reflects Hedayat&rsq
 uo\;s conversational\, confessional tone\,&nbsp\;</em><strong>Blind Owl</s
 trong>&nbsp\;<em>joins the ranks of classics by Edgar Allan Poe\, Franz Ka
 fka\, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky that explore the dark recesses of the human p
 syche.</em></p>\n<p>This is a slim read that packs a ferocious punch--join
  us and get into the creepy spirit of the season!</p>\n<p>Get your copy fr
 om Thank You Books today: <a href="https://thankyoubookshop.com/events/252
 64">https://thankyoubookshop.com/events/25264</a></p>\nhttps://emmetoneal.
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