My Father's NotebookWhen he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the illegitimate, deaf mute son of a Persian nobleman, travelled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountain. Once there, he was to transcribe a cuneiform inscription over three thousand years old. Decades later, his son, Ishmael a political dissident in exile attempts to translate a notebook filled with a private language made from this ancient script and in the process, tells his father's story, his own, and the