A review by junyan
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali

2.0

I thought the story would focus more on the political conflict in 1953 Iran and how this historical event affected characters, but I thought wrong. The author threw a bunch of cliches into the story and decorated it with the cruel coup d'etat to show (attempted to but failed, actually) the deepness of this book. But that's not how a good story works, those elements are not organically connected.
Sometimes when I have an unpopular opinions on books of high ratings, I know both why people like these books and why I have different thoughts, but this time I cannot get the high rating either to be honest.