num_pages: 256
description: Decades before the Iranian revolution of 1979, which placed the country under a repressive religious rule, Shusha Guppy grew up in a Persia delicately balanced between traditional Islamic life and the transforming forces of westernization. In this eloquent memoir, Guppy recreates the lost world of her childhood before the oil boom and the eventual overthrow of the Shah. Her lively tales about relatives, friends, music, drama, religious holidays, and celebrations bring to life a vanished society caught between the oppressive but stable strictures of the past and the unsettling freedoms of the future.
language: English
title: The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood
titlecomplete: The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
genres: History, Iran, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 114
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks