In 1974, a young Englishman teaching in Isfahan finds himself involved with one of his pupils, who is the daughter of a General and an Iranian princess. The lovers elope, are separated and he spends the next years searching for her in the prisons and battlefields of Iran's new world. This is a book to savour, gripping and enigmatic, part love-story, part political-thriller, it paints a chilling picture of a country ruled by oppression.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 7 February 2001 ) |
