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A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society's expectations to find her voice and her destiny "Remember the flight, for the bird is mortal." All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel-gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother's walled garden,...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
For all his wealth and success, Asher Malacouti--the head of a prosperous Jewish family living in the Iranian town of Kermanshah in the early twentieth century--cannot have the one thing he desires above all: a son. His young wife Rakhel, trapped in an oppressive marriage at a time when a woman's worth is measured by her fertility, is made desperate by her failure to conceive, and grows jealous and vindictive.
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Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A journey across Iran in the 1940s where war and superstition, jealousy and betrayal, and passion and loyalty rage behind the impenetrable walls of mansions and the crumbling houses of the Jewish Quarter as Soleiman Yaran, a Jewish dentist and a widower,struggles with his relationship with Velvet, the wife of the Governor General, who longs for freedom and for love."--
