Les amoureux ne se rencontrent jamais par hasard,Chacun abrite l'autre dans son coeur depuis le début.Téhéran, 1953. Les parents de Roya veulent le meilleur pour leur fille : ils l'inscrivent dans un prestigieux lycée de la capitale, espérant bien faire d'elle une savante, une intellectuelle, une femme capable de changer le cours de l'histoire. La jeune fille fréquente régulièrement la librairie de M. Fakhri, où elle trouve de quoi étancher sa soif de poés...

À ses pieds, un tapis cuivré couvrait le sol, parsemé des pétales de rose rouges, et de quelques feuilles aux teintes flamboyantes. Elle repensa aux mosaïques étincelantes sur les immeubles, au sud de Téhéran, le bleu turquoise dans les bassins de carpes koï partout dans la ville, les tapis colorés savamment tissées dans les maisons et les boutiques. Les piles de safran, de curcuma et de sumac au souk, tout comme les motifs kaléidoscopiques des parterres, dans les parcs.De...

Des shir zan*, des lionnes. Nous deux. Tu ne le vois pas, Ellie ? Un jour, toi et moi, on accomplira de grandes choses. On vivra notre propre vie, et on aidera les autres. On est sans doute que des lionceaux, pour l'instant, mais on deviendra des lionnes, des femmes fortes qui font bouger les choses.*Téhéran, 1950. L'année de ses sept ans, Ellie a tout perdu : son père, son confort, et l'insouciance de son enfance dorée. Dans les ruelles modestes de son nouveau quartier, e...

Ambientada em três décadas transformadoras no Irão, As Leoas de Teerão é uma exploração arrebatadora e comovente de como aqueles que conhecemos na juventude moldam as pessoas em que nos tornamos, o modo como amamos e a coragem que temos para transformar as nossas vidas.TEERÃO, DÉCADA DE 1950. Ellie, de 7 anos, vive uma vida confortável, até que a morte do pai a obriga a mudar-se com a mãe para uma pequena casa no centro da cidade. Solitári...

In Together Tea, Marjan Kamali’s delightful and heartwarming debut novel, Darya has discovered the perfect gift for her daughter’s twenty-fifth birthday: an ideal husband. Mina, however, is fed up with her mother’s years of endless matchmaking and the spreadsheets grading available Iranian-American bachelors. Having spent her childhood in Tehran and the rest of her life in New York City, Mina has experienced cultural clashes firsthand, but she’s learning that the greatest clashes ...

D**e boekhandel van Teheran van Marjan Kamali is een krachtig liefdesverhaal over verlies, troost en de speling van het lot. Romeo & Julia in Teheran van de jaren vijftig. Voor de lezers van De bijenhouder van Aleppo en De vliegeraar.Teheran, 1953. Roya brengt de uren na school graag door in de boekhandel van meneer Fakhri, die vol staat met boeken, pennen, inktpotjes en schrijfpapier. De kasten met literatuur en poëzie oefenen de grootste aantrekkingskra...

Sneeuwvlokken in Teheran van Marjan Kamali is een hartverwarmende roman over familie, onverwachte liefde en teruggaan naar je roots.Teheran, 1985. Parviz en Darya vluchten met hun twee zoons en hun dochter Mina vanuit Iran naar de Verenigde Staten. Vijftien jaar later heeft Darya haar droom om wiskundige te worden opgegeven en zet ze haar talent voor cijfers in om aan de hand van spreadsheets de perfecte Iraans-Amerikaanse echtgenoot te vinden voor de inmiddels vijfentwint...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali, this perfect book club read is “evocative...and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism” (People**) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.**In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown....

From the New York Times bestselling author of Together Tea and The Lion Women of Tehran, a poignant, "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) and "affecting novel about first love" (Real Simple) that explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate.**Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri’s neighborhood stationery shop, stocked ...

**A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK'As heart-wrenching as it is achingly beautiful'** Sadeqa Johnson, author of The House of Eve'Heartbreaking and life affirming' Adrienne Brodeur, author of Little Monsters'Courage, friendship, loyalty, hardship, love – this novel has everything' Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, YesFrom the author of The Stationery Shop of Tehran, a heartfel...

If you read The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul and enjoyed The Beekeeper of Aleppo, you will love The Stationery Shop of Tehran1953, Tehran. In a small shop in a country on the brink of unrest, two people meet for the very first time.Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the stationery shop run by Mr Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick wads of writing paper, also carries translations of lite...

Darya has discovered the perfect gift for her daughter's twenty-fifth birthday: an ideal husband. Mina, however, is fed up with her mother's endless matchmaking and grading of available Iranian American bachelors.After Darya's last ill-fated attempt to find Mina a husband, mother and daughter embark on a journey to Iran, where the two women gradually begin to understand each other. But after Mina falls for a young man who never appeared on her mother's spreadsheets and Darya is tem...