![]() ![]() ![]() With a sorrowful heart, she moves on-to college in California, to another man, to a life in New England-until, more than sixty years later, an accident of fate leads her back to Bahman and offers her a chance to ask him the questions that have haunted her for more than half a century: Why did you leave? Where did you go? How is it that you were able to forget me? ( From the publisher. In the chaos, Bahman never shows.įor weeks, Roya tries desperately to contact him, but her efforts are fruitless. Their romance blossoms, and the little stationery shop remains their favorite place in all of Tehran.Ī few short months later, on the eve of their marriage, Roya agrees to meet Bahman at the town square when violence erupts-a result of the coup d’etat that forever changes their country’s future. This is an important time in Iranian history and can be tied to the Iran-US troubles today. It is the story of the Iranian culture and expectations, a story of a specific time period in history and a story of forbidden loves.The story begins in Teheran in 1953. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer-handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumi’s poetry-and she loses her heart at once. Stationery Shop (Kamali) A poignant, heartfelt novel of lost love explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate. The Stationery Shop is a beautiful novel. ![]() ![]() Fakhri’s neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel-colored ink. Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. A poignant, heartfelt novel of lost love explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate. ![]()
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