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A review by sidharthvardhan
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
5.0
International Booker long list always bring some amazing books whose existence I would never have known about. This one is a mixture of Marquez and Rushdi's varients of magical realism set in Iran. There might be a few imperfections and there are a few things I didn't fully understand but I loved most of it.
If you like reading about book lovers, you will love it, and there are Iranian fantasy creatures and ghosts and there are love stories and it is a novel about political and social atmosphere of Iran and there are ghosts and there is also a needlessly and ridiculously long sentence - just like this one but far bigger and the prose is simply beautiful. Sometimes it seemed that Azar was trying to use all literary devices ever invented but this is definitely one of best novels from among the few I have read from Iran.
If you like reading about book lovers, you will love it, and there are Iranian fantasy creatures and ghosts and there are love stories and it is a novel about political and social atmosphere of Iran and there are ghosts and there is also a needlessly and ridiculously long sentence - just like this one but far bigger and the prose is simply beautiful. Sometimes it seemed that Azar was trying to use all literary devices ever invented but this is definitely one of best novels from among the few I have read from Iran.