Caffè Babilonia
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788854500129 (8854500127)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Neri Pozza
Pages no: 244
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Novels,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Magical Realism,
Cooking,
Foodie,
Iran
Three sisters from Iran move to a small town in Mayo in the shadow of Croagh Patrick and in seting up a Persian cafe they change all around them and are changed by the town
I wavered between giving this three or four stars, but I did enjoy it, for the most part, so four it is. Most of it was an interesting, engaging story set in Ireland, with flashbacks to Iran at the time of the revolution against the Shah. However, the ending spoiled it for me a little, as it was j...
Pomegranate Soup: A novel by Mesha MehranThe Aminpour sisters from Iran arrives in the small village Ballinacroagh in Ireland. Having fled some years ago from the turmoil of Iran the sisters thinks of the village as a safe haven.Marjan Aminpour along side her younger sisters Bahar and Layla have bou...
It has some nice recipes heading the chapters but the book itself is a bit of a mish mash, not entirely settled in its place, too short for the number of characters. It was just not very satisfactory.
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