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A review by ryanjb86
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
5.0
Love, love, loved this book! I am always a fan of magical realism but this one really took it there and ran with it. Such an awesome story and I will have my fingers crossed for it winning the Booker International Prize later this month!
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Taking place in Iran in the period immediately after the 1978 Islamic Revolution. Azar employs the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, and as a reader yoy cannot help but be drawn into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionary chaos and brutality that sweeps across an ancient land and its people. The story embodies Iranian life and its never-ending balance and conflict between life and death, politics and religion, and the incalculable joys and sorrows these four elements of life can bring!
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Taking place in Iran in the period immediately after the 1978 Islamic Revolution. Azar employs the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, and as a reader yoy cannot help but be drawn into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionary chaos and brutality that sweeps across an ancient land and its people. The story embodies Iranian life and its never-ending balance and conflict between life and death, politics and religion, and the incalculable joys and sorrows these four elements of life can bring!
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