My last review was The Saffron Kitchen, a novel set in modern London and in Iran in the 1950s and โ60s, a novel about interrupted love and political upheaval. The Stationery Shop is a similar type of novel, set in 1953 Tehran and the modern US and also featuring interrupted love and political upheaval. While The Saffron Kitchen alludes to political developments in Iran, its main focus is on the trauma these events have caused its main character and her relationship with the love interest […]
Iranian immigrant experience, part 2
The Stationery Shop: Novel by Marjan Kamali