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A stunning debut and a fascinating love story ... Romeo and Juliet in tehran. this beautiful first novel conjures up a world that is now gone - an exotic, seductive place just before the revolution in Iran. Mahastee and Reza loved each other as children, when Reza's family worked for Mahastee's in a more noble time now long past. they have not seen each other since they were sixteen, and now chance has reunited them. Mahastee is now married to a man who is well-established and well-connected politically, a man she has grown to despise. Reza has grown up to become a revolutionary, leading underground meetings and living at the edge of fear. their encounters are a portrait not only of an ill-fated love, but a country at odds with itself moving ever-closer to a doomed collision.
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In the Walled Gardens, Anahita Firouz
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- Année de publication
- 2003
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- Titre
- In the Walled Gardens
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Anahita Firouz
- Éditeur
- Flamingo
- Publié
- 2003
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN10
- 0732274826
- ISBN13
- 9780732274825
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Romans d'amour, Romans historiques, Iran
- Évaluation
- 2,5 sur 5
- Description
- A stunning debut and a fascinating love story ... Romeo and Juliet in tehran. this beautiful first novel conjures up a world that is now gone - an exotic, seductive place just before the revolution in Iran. Mahastee and Reza loved each other as children, when Reza's family worked for Mahastee's in a more noble time now long past. they have not seen each other since they were sixteen, and now chance has reunited them. Mahastee is now married to a man who is well-established and well-connected politically, a man she has grown to despise. Reza has grown up to become a revolutionary, leading underground meetings and living at the edge of fear. their encounters are a portrait not only of an ill-fated love, but a country at odds with itself moving ever-closer to a doomed collision.