Iran, 1972, the Shah has fled. Isaac, a prosperous jeweller, is arrested, tortured and faces summary execution. We learn his story through his eyes and those of his pampered wife, little daughter and the son living in America. Perhaps because the characters are composites of the many who suffered, they seem sometimes like shadows behind a screen, but I was hooked by the story and on tenterhooks as the family made their perilous way to exile.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 67 Winter 2012 ) |
