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Kader Abdolah

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in Arak, Iran

December 12, 1954

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Kader Abdolah is the penname of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani, an Iranian writer who also writes in Dutch. Abdolah has lived in the Netherlands since 1988.

He studied physics at the Arak College of Science and fled the country as a political refugee in 1988. Today he lives in Delft (The Netherlands), writing under a pseudonym made up of the names of two murdered friends. Het huis van de moskee (The House of the Mosque), catapulted Abdolah into the Dutch bestseller lists.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 27,978 ratings · 2,207 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors

	Het huis van de moskee 4.12 avg rating — 13,367 ratings — published 2005 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Father's Notebook: A Novel of Iran 3.89 avg rating — 3,108 ratings — published 1999 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De kraai 3.25 avg rating — 1,981 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Papegaai vloog over de IJssel 3.70 avg rating — 1,288 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De reis van de lege flessen 3.31 avg rating — 1,265 ratings — published 1997 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De Koning 3.67 avg rating — 1,114 ratings — published 2011 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Het pad van de gele slippers 4.15 avg rating — 852 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salam Europa! 3.67 avg rating — 907 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De boodschapper 3.54 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1001 nacht 3.93 avg rating — 437 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.”
― Kader Abdolah, Het huis van de moskee

tags: inspirational, life, reality

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“Los persas no necesitan haber vivido el amor en sus propias carnes. En sus cuentos y mitos, incluso en el libro sagrado, el amor está por todas partes.”
― Kader Abdolah, My Father's Notebook: A Novel of Iran

tags: love

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“If those sweet lips, that goblet of wine, Yes, everything, ends in non-existence, Then remember, for as long as you exist, That you are only what you will be one day: Nothing. It’s impossible to be less than that.”
― Kader Abdolah, The House of the Mosque

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De vliegeraar van Khaled Hosseini - 352 pagina's - Afghanistan

23 votes, 16.9%

Het huis van de moskee van Kader Abdolah - 412 pagina's - Iran

18 votes, 13.2%

Moord op de Nijl van Agatha Christie - 223 pagina's - Egypte

13 votes, 9.6%

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Judas van Amos Oz - 304 pagina's - Israel

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3 votes, 2.2%

Koorts van Deon Meyer - 582 pagina's - Zuid-Afrika

3 votes, 2.2%

Het lelietheater van Lulu Wang - 495 pagina's - China

3 votes, 2.2%

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2 votes, 1.5%

Mensenwerk van Han Kang - 240 pagina's - Zuid-Korea

2 votes, 1.5%

Het ding om je hals van Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 254 pagina's - Nigeria

2 votes, 1.5%

Weg naar huis van Yaa Gyasi - 400 pagina's - Ghana

2 votes, 1.5%

Suikerbastaard van Jaap Scholten - 576 pagina's - Ethiopië

0 votes, 0.0%

De schim van mijn liefde van Dương Thu Hương - 509 pagina's - Vietnam

0 votes, 0.0%

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