It is 1977, and the anti-shah protests at Tehran University are intensifying, but Amineh is not like her peers who want a say in the future of their country. Her thoughts are on the literature of another era and her past of rose harvests and Sufi poetry evenings under the desert sky. A chance encounter with a disarmament activist will thrust her into a life she didn’t ask for and didn’t want. Nobody wanted the tyranny that is quickly turning worse than the tyranny it replaced. But maybe Amineh has been looking at her life all wrong—Maybe the thing she is seeking is not in the past at all.
I had unfortunately not read a book set in this part of the world before this book. I am glad I decided to pick this up - will give full credit to the pretty cover and the title. It intrigued me to read the synopsis and I was excited to get to read this. This book has allowed me to explore a part of history that I was oblivious to.
Honest writing, gripping text, empathetic take!
I had unfortunately not read a book set in this part of the world before this book. I am glad I decided to pick this up - will give full credit to the pretty cover and the title. It intrigued me to read the synopsis and I was excited to get to read this. This book has allowed me to explore a part of history that I was oblivious to.
Honest writing, gripping text, empathetic take!