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A Mirror Garden: A Memoir
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ISBN10: 0307278786
ISBN13: 9780307278784
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Aug 12 2008
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.28 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780307278784
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Aug 12 2008
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.28 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
Both a love story and a celebration of the warmth and elegance of Iranian culture, A Mirror Garden is a genuine fairy tale of an exuberant heroine who has never needed rescuing. Captivating.... Farmanfarmaian's sumptuously detailed recollections are a rare, insidery look at two lost worlds.
--Vogue In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar and a nanny might spin stories at her pillow until her eyes fell shut, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was born. From the enchanted basement storeroom where she played as a girl to the penthouse high above New York City where she would someday live, this is the delightful and inspiring story of her life as an artist, a wife and mother, a collector, and an Iranian. Here we see a mischievous girl become a spirited woman who defies tradition.
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