Rooftops of Tehran
by:
Mahbod Seraji (author)
From “a striking new talent”(Sandra Dallas, author of Tallgrass) comes an unforgettable debut novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran headed toward revolution.In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old...
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From “a striking new talent”(Sandra Dallas, author of Tallgrass) comes an unforgettable debut novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran headed toward revolution.In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old Persian culture, while reaffirming the human experiences we all share.In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran’s sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari’s stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah’s secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice…
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101046616 (1101046619)
Publish date: May 5th 2009
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Here's the thing: I fucking hated this thing, but I don't have much to say about it. And that's precisely why I didn't like it at all- it is so unremarkable and boring. It's not worth reading and it's not even worth the energy it takes to rant about it. All I will say is that I could not stand this ...
I really liked this book; the theme was great (I love books like this: it's realistic, we have cultural, romantic elements). Book is really good, but there's something missing to it to be great. I really hated the translation, and now I'm sorry I didn't read it in original, maybe that affected my i...
I really enjoyed this book. It was a very heartbreaking and moving story that was along the lines of The Kite Runner-not the story line but the writing style.
Rooftops of Tehran offers us an important glimpse into Iran which most of us are not aware of in any real sense. Even now we are reading about the protests and killings happening because of many people's dissatisfaction with the ruling party. Rooftops also takes place during a time of frustration wi...
I couldn't get more than a few pages into this one--the voice just wasn't credible to me for a young boy speaking in the present tense. It sounded way too much like a middle-aged man sitting down and writing a novel. This sounds like a small thing but it was so jarring that I had no desire to contin...
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