From the award-nominated creator of Collectively Tea and The Lion Ladies of Tehran, a poignant, “highly effective” (The Wall Road Journal) and “affecting novel about past love” (Actual Easy) that explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of destiny.
Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager residing amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri’s neighborhood stationery store, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel-colored ink.
Then Mr. Fakhri, with a eager intuition for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his different favourite buyer—good-looking Bahman, who has a burning ardour for justice and a love for Rumi’s poetry—and she or he loses her coronary heart without delay. Their romance blossoms, and the little stationery store stays their favourite place in all of Tehran.
A number of brief months later, on the eve of their marriage, Roya agrees to fulfill Bahman on the city sq. when violence erupts—a results of the coup d’etat that eternally adjustments their nation’s future. Within the chaos, Bahman by no means reveals. For weeks, Roya tries desperately to contact him, however her efforts are fruitless. With a sorrowful coronary heart, she strikes on—to school in California, to a different man, to a life in New England—till, greater than sixty years later, an accident of destiny leads her again to Bahman and presents her an opportunity to ask him the questions which have haunted her for greater than half a century: Why did you allow? The place did you go? How is it that you just had been in a position to overlook me?
Writer : Gallery Books; Reprint version (February 11, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1982107499
ISBN-13 : 978-1982107499
Merchandise Weight : 2.31 kilos
Dimensions : 5.63 x 0.84 x 8.38 inches
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