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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-139781408822333
eBay Product ID (ePID)114862769
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Cypress Tree
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2012
TopicMemorials, History
TypeTextbook
AuthorKamin Mohammadi
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight236 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorKamin Mohammadi