Books
by Sahar Delijani
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Children of the Jacaranda Tree |
Written by a young exiled Iranian - apart from some early chapters in which the writing is overblown - this is a disturbing and moving account of children growing up with the knowledge, often unspoken, always there, of the terrible things suffered by their parents' generation resisting the fundamentalism following the '79 revolution. Shifting backwards and forwards in time, the Jacaranda Tree, throwing its shadow over all their lives, becomes the symbol of love and hope.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 72 Spring 2014) |
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