The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
Book: The Stationery Shop of Tehran Author: Marjan Kamali Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance, War Published by: Simon & Schuster in 2019 Page Count: 305 Other books by the Author: Together Tea (2013), The Lion Women of Tehran (2024) Book Review: This book is going to stay with me forever, Roya, Bahman, Badri, Ali, Walter, and Zari, all of these characters are someone I knew in past life, so close, so bonded, I don’t know if I would be able to talk about Iran, war, tragedy, or lost love without reminiscing this story and these characters. It is a perfect book about love, loss, hope, betrayal, kindness, past, and how that past haunts your present, which remains stuck to you like a strand of hair, you keep shrugging it off when it touches you anywhere but when you look for it, it’s not there. Roya and Zari are the daughters of a government clerk and a liberal father, who constantly remind his daughters that they are made for bigger things in life. In 1953 Iran, when Mossadegh is ...