The hereditary owners of the town's congregational mosque occupy a large, old house. The House of the Mosque unfolds in Senejan, a traditional carpet-weaving town that has affinities with Abdolah's home town, Sultanabad or Arak. The original of this novel has sold in its hundreds of thousands in the Netherlands, while an Italian critic has compared Abdolah, in his mastery of an alien literary language, to Nabokov and Conrad. His 2000 novel Cuneiform, published as My Father's Notebook in 2005, was praised in this country. K ader Abdolah is the nom de plume of an Iranian man who quit his native land in 1985, first for Turkey and then the Netherlands, and has since written novels and other works in Dutch.
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