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Rooftops of Tehran

Rooftops of Tehran

Seraji, Mahbod

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Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 045122681X
ISBN13: 9780451226815
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: May 5 2009
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
From a striking new talent(Sandra Dallas, author of Tallgrass) comes an unforgettable debut novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran headed toward revolution.

In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old Persian culture, while reaffirming the human experiences we all share.

In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice...

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