Mr Fakhri agrees to ferry letters between the two lovers in secret but Bahman’s letters don’t tell Roya anything. One night the entire Aslan family disappears, leaving Roya wrought with fear for Bahman’s safety. The sky was an eggplant purple, the clouds the color of bruises.” “summer twilight that was so beautiful she ached. Undeterred, he keeps’ assuring Roya that things will work out once they get married. Bahman’s mother is dead set against the match as she has someone else in mind for him.

Nurtured by Mr Fakhri’s discretion, the two teenagers embark on a romance in the book stocked realms of the stationery shop that perhaps is found only in the books. Its here that she bumps into the handsome Bahman Aslan who is on a mission to change the world with his ideology. The fatherly shop owner is only too happy to encourage her love of reading and always discusses books with her, suggesting which one she should pick next. Roya’s greatest pleasure lies in reading poetry, especially by Rumi and spends her time (as often as she can) in Mr. She is also more social and forward thinking than Roya who prefers to go with the flow. Her younger sister Zari is enamored with the American film stars, fashion and hairstyles and is more outspoken of the two. Roya is a dreamy eyed teenager whose liberal minded parents encourage both their daughters to pursue higher education to become icons in their own right. Political activism ran amok in the city, patronized by many sympathizers who were only too willing to lend a helping hand.

The supporters of the Shah were against letting democracy reign in Iran and so it seemed were some of the foreign powers whose vested interests lay in the oil reserves of the country. The tale is set against the backdrop of the political coup that erupted in Tehran in 1953. She has written two books and both have been awarded with several accolades. Marjan Kamali is an Iranian-American writer who seems to have traveled the world from Turkey to Kenya, Germany, Iran and finally to the United States. Title: The Stationery Shop Genre: Fiction Publisher: Gallery Books Author: Marjan Kamali I would love to hear about your views on the book and my review, if you have read this book too. So when I saw it on one of my book apps, I decided to give it a read. The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali had been trending on my time line for quite some time. “Why doesn’t his heart let go? Why do some people stay lodged in our souls, stuck in our throats, imprinted in our minds?”

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