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==Literary fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
|title=The Colonel
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The novel opens at dead of night in a house in Rasht in Gilan province, Iran. It is pouring with rain and the colonel of the title is in the grip of extreme melancholia. Two policemen are knocking on the door. They are bringing news of his youngest daughter. This triggers a night of misery in which the colonel recalls his own past, and the tragic lives of his five children.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906598894</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tessa Hadley
