num_pages: 273
description: Flowers for the Tomb of Hafiz is a novel in the form of a diary. It records the diarist's coming to terms with his illusions about romantic love. The setting is a university in the San Francisco Bay Are in the early 1980's and the author is a thirty-nine-year-old lecturer in computer science and mathematics. The period is just after the fall of the Shah of Iran. The diarist's encounter with a twenty-five-year-old Iranian woman, caught between two cultures, forces him to come to terms with the end of his youth.
language: English
title: Flowers for the Tomb of Hafiz
titlecomplete: Flowers for the Tomb of Hafiz
publisher: Xlibris Corp