Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

Description:

Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a small village, hoping in this way to preserve both their intellectual freedom and their lives. But they soon find themselves caught up in the post-revolutionary chaos that sweeps across their ancient land. Bahar's mother, after a tragic loss, will embark on a long, eventful journey in search of meaning in a world swept up in the post-revolutionary madness.

subjects: Fiction, general,  Indo-iranian philology,  Fiction, historical, general,  Iran, fiction,  Families,  Fiction,  Islam and civil society,  Revolutions,  History,  FICTION / General