This novel is very easily read, too easily even. I feel like, regarding the situation in the country where the US was clear involved in undermining their democratically elected leader, Iranians wouldn’t have been so keen on American culture.
She of course succeeds and meets Walter, the opposite of her Iranian lover. Roya is devastated, ends up pursuing her studies in America following her father’s guide to success and mending a broken heart (oh he also wanted his daughters to live in a stable country, not one subjected to coups). They get engaged, his mentally unstable mother doesn’t approve beacause of Roya’s supposed lower class and Bahman disappears. Roya is 17 year old Iranian living in the 1950s, brought up by what Kamali wants to portray as progressive parents, and falls in love with a young political activist supposedly participating in pro Mossadegh movements while both of them frequently visit a renowned stationery shop in Tehran. Upon finding the book on scribd last week, it didn’t occur to me to double check and confirm my interest, I dove right in. Mentions of Persian poetry, politics and history all within a short blurb was enough to get me excited at the time. So if I am completely honest, it is probably my mistake for failing to notice or remember that the plot is essentially a love story. I saved Marjan Kamali’s stationery shop a while back, amidst my watching a number of travel videos of Iran.
I had great expectations for this book and disappointment only comes from expectation.
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