Title: The enlightenment of the greengage tree /
Authors: Azar, Shokoofeh
Year: 2020
Subjects: Families Iran Fiction.; Islam and civil society Fiction.; Revolutions Fiction; FICTION / General.; Families; Islam and civil society; Revolutions; Iran History Fiction.; Iran History Fiction.; Iran
Abstract: Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a small village, hoping in this way to preserve both their intellectual freedom and their lives. But they soon find themselves caught up in the post-revolutionary chaos that sweeps across their ancient land. Bahar's mother, after a tragic loss, will embark on a long, eventful journey in search of meaning in a world swept up in the post-revolutionary madness.