The Blind Owl (Authorized by The Sadegh Hedayat Foundation – First Translation into English Based on the Bombay Edition)

Costello: “There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.”
Bashiri: “In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it.”
Noori: “In life there are wounds that, like leprosy, silently scrape at and consume the soul, in solitude—”
Naveed Noori
Samangan
2011