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Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with British attitudes to family, food and freedom. She was twenty-seven before she returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother's house in Abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very walls steeped in history. The Cypress Tree is Kamin's account of her journey home, to rediscover her Iranian self and to discover for the first time the story of her family: a sprawling clan that sprang from humble roots to bloom during the affluent, Biba-clad 1960s, only to be shaken by the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War and the heartbreak of exile, and toughened by the struggle for democracy that continues today. This moving and passionate memoir is a love letter both to Kamin's extraordinary family and to Iran itself, an ancient country which has survived so much modern tumult but where joy and resilience will always triumph over despair.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139780747591528
eBay Product ID (ePID)108453409
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Cypress Tree
AuthorKamin Mohammadi
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicMemorials, History
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height216mm
Item Width135mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorKamin Mohammadi
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom