My Uncle Napoleon

Name: Hedieh Tabrizian

Title: My Uncle Napoleon

Author:  Iraj Pezeshkzad

Language: Persian

Country: Iran

Publishing Date: 1970

    

SUMMARY:

This book is based on a rich man, who was the biggest brother of the family in Iran, and everyone called him Agahjon. He was divorced from his wife and lived with his daughter. Agahjon had seven brothers and sisters, who lived with him in his big house. He had a feeling that he was responsible for the family, but they ignored his feeling. As a result, that caused him to have mental problems.

 After a while he compared his life with a man called Napoleon. Then he imagined himself being Napoleon. His servant made the obsession of being Napoleon bigger by encouraging him that he was really Napoleon. At first, his family didn’t notice this serious mental issue, so it got worse as time went by. Furthermore, this issue became so worst that he actually thought he was a hero, and England was looking to kill him. Afterwards, his family tried to prevent his mental illness, but they were not successful. Hence, so Agahjon suffered a lot from this mental disease for a very long time. He ultimately died from this debilitating disease because of the extreme stress caused by it.

RECOMMENDATION:

This book, My Uncle Napoleon, is a timeless classic novel, known since the 1970s to this day. This novel was later adapted into a very successful Iranian TV series. It also has a lot of humor and family intrigue. The author Iraj Pezeshkzad shows how people influence each other in different ways that can be negative or positive. For instance, Pezeshkzad describes how some individuals can help others mental problems with good influences as well as some can make others worse by bad influences.