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The Cypress Tree

Af: Kamin Mohammadi Engelsk Paperback

The Cypress Tree

Af: Kamin Mohammadi Engelsk Paperback
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''A memoir to inspire'' - Aminatta Forna

''I cannot recommend this book highly enough'' - Nassim Assefi, author of Aria

''Fascinating insight on a topic much discussed but rarely understood from a human perspective. Recommended reading for anyone with an interest in the Middle East'' - Image Magazine
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The story of three generations of Iranian women - Kamin, her mother and her grandmother - which portrays the history of twentieth century Iran

Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with British attitudes to family, food and freedom. She was twenty-seven before she returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother''s house in Abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very walls steeped in history.

The Cypress Tree is Kamin''s account of her journey home, to rediscover her Iranian self and to discover for the first time the story of her family: a sprawling clan that sprang from humble roots to bloom during the affluent, Biba-clad 1960s, only to be shaken by the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War and the heartbreak of exile, and toughened by the struggle for democracy that continues today.

This moving and passionate memoir is a love letter both to Kamin''s extraordinary family and to
Iran itself, an ancient country which has survived so much modern tumult but where joy and resilience will always triumph over despair.
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''Here is a portrait of a country completely at odds with the media’s portrayals ... It was a particular joy to read this memoir ... in the author’s nostalgic depiction, one finds both a world that has passed away and one being born again'' - Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go

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''A memoir to inspire'' - Aminatta Forna

''I cannot recommend this book highly enough'' - Nassim Assefi, author of Aria

''Fascinating insight on a topic much discussed but rarely understood from a human perspective. Recommended reading for anyone with an interest in the Middle East'' - Image Magazine
_______________

The story of three generations of Iranian women - Kamin, her mother and her grandmother - which portrays the history of twentieth century Iran

Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with British attitudes to family, food and freedom. She was twenty-seven before she returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother''s house in Abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very walls steeped in history.

The Cypress Tree is Kamin''s account of her journey home, to rediscover her Iranian self and to discover for the first time the story of her family: a sprawling clan that sprang from humble roots to bloom during the affluent, Biba-clad 1960s, only to be shaken by the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War and the heartbreak of exile, and toughened by the struggle for democracy that continues today.

This moving and passionate memoir is a love letter both to Kamin''s extraordinary family and to
Iran itself, an ancient country which has survived so much modern tumult but where joy and resilience will always triumph over despair.
_______________

''Here is a portrait of a country completely at odds with the media’s portrayals ... It was a particular joy to read this memoir ... in the author’s nostalgic depiction, one finds both a world that has passed away and one being born again'' - Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9781408822333
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1408822334
Kategori: Tehran
Udg. Dato: 2 aug 2012
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 130mm
Højde: 195mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 2 aug 2012
Forfatter(e): Kamin Mohammadi
Forfatter(e) Kamin Mohammadi


Kategori Tehran


ISBN-13 9781408822333


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 288


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 130mm


Højde 195mm


Udg. Dato 2 aug 2012


Oplagsdato 2 aug 2012


Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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