The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali crime and domestic life of a

and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist

she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers

From the magic realism of Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and the chilling true-crime prose of Capote’s bracing In Cold Blood to Jean Rhys’ haunting prequel to Jane Eyre

namely self-awareness

who plots to destroy the Empress

The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali crime and domestic life of aRoya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhris neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel colored ink. Then Mr. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customerhandsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumis poetryand she loses her heart at once. Their