![]() I have read so many books like these which have titles like - The Coffee shop in Kabul, The bookshop on the Seine, The Guernsey literary potato peel society, The breakfast club, etc and so on. The Stationery Shop of Tehran - Marjan Kamali Jaya Shravan Reviewed on: 18-03-2021 Poignant love story of two star-crossed teens With a sorrowful heart, she moves on-to college in California, to another man, to a life in New England-until, more than sixty years later, an accident of fate leads her back to Bahman and offers her a chance to ask him the questions that have haunted her for more than half a century: Why did you leave? Where did you go? How is it that you were able to forget me? ![]() For weeks, Roya tries desperately to contact him, but her efforts are fruitless. A few short months later, on the eve of their marriage, Roya agrees to meet Bahman at the town square when violence erupts-a result of the coup d’etat that forever changes their country’s future. Their romance blossoms, and the little stationery shop remains their favorite place in all of Tehran. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer-handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumi’s poetry-and she loses her heart at once. ![]() Fakhri’s neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel-colored ink. Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. ![]()
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