Emanuele Soi Soi من عند چشمه رعنا، فارس، إيران من عند چشمه رعنا، فارس، إيران

I read this originally in 1995 (or so), then tried to reread it for book club Mar '07. Maybe I was just too old (in my 30s), or maybe b/c I had read Bram Stoker's Dracula (and loved it!), it just didn't click. But I found the main character annoying and full of himself (all the time saying he wasn't full of himself), and some of the relationships just plain old creepy.