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Book Synopsis_______________''A memoir to inspire'' - Aminatta Forna
''I cannot recommend this book highly enough'' - Nassim Assefi, author of
Aria''Fascinating insight on a topic much discussed but rarely understood from a human perspective. Recommended reading for anyone with an interest in the Middle East'' - Image Magazine_______________The story of three generations of Iranian women - Kamin, her mother and her grandmother - which portrays the history of twentieth century IranKamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with British attitudes to family, food and freedom. She was twenty-seven before she returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother''s house in Abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very walls ste
Trade ReviewA memoir to inspire * Aminatta Forna *
I cannot recommend this book highly enough * Nassim Assefi, author of Aria *
Fascinating insight on a topic much discussed but rarely understood from a human perspective. Recommended reading for anyone with an interest in the Middle East * Image Magazine *
Her descriptions are so incredibly lush you feel as much as read them – I could smell the cardamom in the chai, the camellias in the garden. Here is a portrait of a country completely at odds with the media’s portrayals: the sensuous, intellectual and social Iran that Mohammadi left behind. It was a particular joy to read this memoir in the wake of the recent presidential election, for in the author’s nostalgic depiction, one finds both a world that has passed away and one being born again. * Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go *
