"Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri's 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 her to his other favorite customer--handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumi's poetry--and Roya loses her heart at once ... A few short months later, on the eve of their marriage, Roya agress to meet Bahman at the town square, but suddenly, violence erupts--a result of the coup that forever changes their country's future. In the chaos, Bahman never shows"--Dust jacket flap.
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