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Kelidar
Kelidar (1977 to 1984) is Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's monumental novel, one of the most famous Persian novels. This novel is of nearly three thousand pages in five volumes consisting of ten books.
The author has used Folklore in writing Kelidar and he spent 15 years writing the novel. Kelidar has been translated into different languages.
Kelidar is the name of a mountain and a village in Khorasan where the events of the novel take place.