Honeymoon in purdah
Subtitle: an Iranian journey
By: Alison Wearing
Edition: 1st Picador USA pbk. ed.
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780312263447; 9780312261818
Subjects: Social life and customs; Travel; Description and travel
Description: "Traveling with a male friend, in the guise of a couple on their honeymoon, Wearing set out on her own at every available opportunity. She went looking for what lay beneath the media's representation of Iran and found a country made up of welcoming, curious, warmhearted, ambitious men and women. Through her, we meet the ordinary and extraordinary people of Iran - those whose lives extend beyond Western news stories of kidnappings, terrorism, veiled women, and Islamic fundamentalism.

She introduces us to a gregarious young opium dealer who dreams of America, policemen who bring tea, a stranger waving hello in his pajamas, a playful eight-year-old girl only a year away from the possibility of marriage, and an irrepressible, heroic Anglican minister."--BOOK JACKET.