By Cyrus Massoudi
ISBN-10: 1784535702
ISBN-13: 9781784535704
ISBN-10: 1848856377
ISBN-13: 9781848856370
Rich portrayals of Sufis and getting old aristocrats, smugglers and underground rock bands are all woven including background, faith and mythology to shape a distinct portrait of up to date Iranian society. And, like a delicate thread working throughout the middle of the narrative lies Massoudi’s poignant own quest; his fight echoing that of Iran itself, because it fights to forge a cohesive smooth identification. With its tensions of younger opposed to outdated, reformists opposed to reactionaries and the pc opposed to the Qur’an, it's a conflict with international implications for a destiny that's poised so precariously among promise and ruin.
Land of the Turquoise Mountains finds an international past the propaganda-driven, mediafuelled photograph of fractious, flag-burning fundamentalism, and gives a compelling glimpse either into the center of a deeply misunderstood kingdom and into what it's to search out and become aware of one’s heritage.
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