The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali7/1/2023 The loss of love and changing worlds is vividly captured by Kamali time and circumstances kept these lovers apart, but nothing diminishes their connection. Fahkri, who allows the young lovers privacy in his stationery shop, that the romance continues until a final misunderstanding the couple is separated by expectations that they enter arranged marriages, as well as the violence that erupts in the streets when Mossadegh is overthrown. The love that blossoms between the two 17-year-olds is intense and true, but Bahman’s mother is determined to direct her son’s interests away from Roya. As is true with Roya’s father, Bahman is an avid supporter of the new Prime Minister Mossadegh, but Bahman takes it further with dangerous activism. She begins to relive her first meeting with young Bahman 60 years earlier in a small Tehran stationery shop. Shelf Awareness Marjan Kamalis The Stationery Shop is an affecting novel about first love. In 2013, Roya is 77 years old, nearing the end of her life with her American husband, when she discovers her fiancé from when she was growing up in Tehran is living in a retirement home nearby. The Stationery Shop is at once a layered historical saga of a country struggling toward democracy and an intimate meditation on 'a love from which we never recover. In this tender story of lifelong love, Kamali ( Together Tea) moves from 2013 New England to violence in 1953 Tehran as citizens, a new Prime Minister, and the Shah of Iran clash.
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