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A family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead

Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader deep into the heartof a family caught in the chaos that sweeps across an ancient land and its people in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Exquisitely written, Azar is the consummate storyteller, using the panoply of Persian mythical and mystical entities to bring life, humour, hope, resignation, and profound insights to the characters and...

A family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead

A family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead

LONGLISTED for the 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature FINALIST for the 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From the pen of one of Iran's rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is a family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead. Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-...