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Legend Kept

By Mattias Frey

Boston Phoenix | December 9, 2005

A paean to the Middle Eastern oral storytelling tradition narrates the life of the 11th-century Persian astronomer, mathematician, and poet from the perspective of a 12-year-old Iranian-American.

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Tags: Kayvan Mashayekh, The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

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