5/22/2023 0 Comments Nazanine hozar ariaThis is a metropolis that might well have swallowed Aria up as a newborn were it not for a kindly army driver. Tehran’s ancient courtyards, alleyways and maze-like bazaars guard its secrets Tehran’s architecture of ancient courtyards, alleyways and maze-like bazaars guards its secrets even from the fabled Alborz mountains that rise up above it. International influences vie with tradition, and while women avert their eyes from the male gaze in the south, in the north they walk with their heads held high and their shoulders back, preferring miniskirts to the veil. Even so, it’s the story’s backdrop, Tehran, that is the book’s standout character.Ī city of two halves with its impoverished south and affluent north, Tehran is home to Baha’is, Christians, Zoroastrians and Jews, as well as Muslims of varying degrees of devoutness. Aria is a defiant, spirited child who’s set to embark upon an odyssey across Iran’s social and religious divides, one whose defining forces illuminate the nation’s rich, complex past as well as the tensions that will fuel its violent future transformation. B eginning in 1953 and closing in the wake of the Iranian revolution, Nazanine Hozar’s epic novel is named after its heroine.
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