The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
Brand: Gallery Books
Product Description
A poignant heartfelt new novel by the awardnominated author of Together Teaextolled by the Wall Street Journal as a moving tale of lost love and by Shelf Awareness as a powerful heartbreaking storyexplores loss reconciliation and the quirks of fate. Roya a dreamy idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhris neighborhood stationery shop stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewelcolored ink. Then Mr. Fakhri with a keen instinct for a budding romance introduces Roya to his other favorite customerhandsome Bahman who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumis poetryand she loses her heart at once. Their romance blossoms and the little stationery shop remains their favorite place in all of Tehran. A few short months later on the eve of their marriage Roya agrees to meet Bahman at the town square when violence eruptsa result of the coup detat that forever changes their countrys future. In the chaos Bahman never shows. For weeks Roya tries desperately to him but her efforts are fruitless. With a sorrowful heart she moves onto college in California to another man to a life in New Englanduntil more than sixty years later an accident of fate leads her back to Bahman and offers her a chance to ask him the questions that have haunted her for more than half a century Why did you leave Where did you go How is it that you were able to forget me show more
Condition : New
Author : Marjan Kamali
Weight : 438
Publisher : Gallery Books
Language : English
EAN : 9781982107499
ISBN10 : 1982107499
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20230928
Place of Publication : NA
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 145 X 208 X 28mm