num_pages: 352
description: It is the spring of 1974, and John Pitt, a young Englishman, sets off for the hippie East, stopping in Iran. There, in the lovely city of Isfahan, he meets the enchanting and spirited Shirin, an Iranian schoolgirl of seventeen. They fall desperately in love, marry in secret, and are forced into hiding. Shirin not only gives John happiness beyond anything he could have dreamed, she gives him her country's terrible history, its beauty and bitterness, its poetry and religious fanaticism. As the old world disintegrates in revolution and terror, John and Shirin are brutally separated. From the corrupt court of the shah to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, in an enduring human quest as old as The Odyssey, John stumbles through history to find his wife.
language: English
title: The Persian Bride
titlecomplete: The Persian Bride
genres: Historical, Adult, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Iran, Modern
ratings_count: 222
places: Iran
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt