$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780451226815
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Published: NAL Trade, 5/2009
While enjoying a carefree summer, seventeen-year-old Pasha and his best friend, Ahmed, spend endless hours on his rooftop, joking, laughing, and discussing themes universal to all teenage boys: first loves, zany teachers, what they’ll do when they grow up. But this is Tehran in 1973, and though Pasha and Ahmed lead rather sheltered, middle-class lives, nothing is quite as it seems. The Shah’s secret police lurk everywhere and through a series of seemingly innocent events, Pasha and Ahmed learn what it is like to live under the rule of a powerful, immoral despot. The Rooftops of Tehran, Mahbod Seraji’s stunning debut novel, poignantly evokes the fear subsistent in a society where no one is truly free and one fatal slip can lead to a lifetime of despair.
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