All memoirs bring the past into the present, but only a few manage
to illuminate both simultaneously. This quietly insightful
masterpiece of remembrance belongs in that select group. Heydar
Radjavi's evocations of growing up in Tabriz in the 1930s and 1940s
describe a traditionalist Iran grappling with modernity, a process
as fraught with contradictions and stresses then as it is in Iran
today. In a series of mini-tales, we meet a rich cast of
characters: the elderly father who works in the Tabriz bazaar and
runs his household according to unbending religious precepts; the
resourceful mother who finds ways to enjoy such forbidden
frivolities as music; the female playmate who marries at the age of
nine; the teacher whose personal journey takes him from strictest
piety to political radicalism; and, many more. Finding a path
through all the complexities is Radjavi himself - a wide-eyed
little boy in some episodes, an adventurous teenager in others, and
finally a young man preparing to enter a fast-changing world. The
tone is always light, the memories wonderfully vivid, and the
underlying theme of tension between old and new truly timeless.
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