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The Cypress Tree (Paperback)
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The Cypress Tree (Paperback)
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List price R366
Loot Price R331
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_______________ 'A memoir to inspire' - Aminatta Forna 'I cannot
recommend this book highly enough' - Nassim Assefi, author of Aria
'Fascinating insight on a topic much discussed but rarely
understood from a human perspective. Recommended reading for anyone
with an interest in the Middle East' - Image Magazine
_______________ The story of three generations of Iranian women -
Kamin, her mother and her grandmother - which portrays the history
of twentieth century Iran Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when
her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the
seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past
and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with British attitudes
to family, food and freedom. She was twenty-seven before she
returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her
grandmother's house in Abadan, with its traditional inner
courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very walls steeped in
history. The Cypress Tree is Kamin's account of her journey home,
to rediscover her Iranian self and to discover for the first time
the story of her family: a sprawling clan that sprang from humble
roots to bloom during the affluent, Biba-clad 1960s, only to be
shaken by the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War and the heartbreak of
exile, and toughened by the struggle for democracy that continues
today. This moving and passionate memoir is a love letter both to
Kamin's extraordinary family and to Iran itself, an ancient country
which has survived so much modern tumult but where joy and
resilience will always triumph over despair. _______________ 'Here
is a portrait of a country completely at odds with the media's
portrayals ... It was a particular joy to read this memoir ... in
the author's nostalgic depiction, one finds both a world that has
passed away and one being born again' - Taiye Selasi, author of
Ghana Must Go
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