The Persian Bride

Author : James Buchan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618219230
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persian Bride written by James Buchan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a masterpiece in Britain, this epic novel is at once a great love story, a riveting political thriller, and a profound analysis of modern Iran. A couple falls desperately in love, marry in secret, and are forced into hiding as the old world disintegrates in revolution and terror.

Author : Dorit Rabinyan
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1782112995
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persian Brides written by Dorit Rabinyan and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While eleven-year-old Nazie has long been engaged to her cousin Moussa and anxiously awaits her marriage, fifteen-year-old Flora has been abandoned by her husband in the midst of a difficult pregnancy. In a novel brimming with vitality and sensuality - smells, colours and textures float effortlessly off the page - Rabinyan examines the lives of these young Jewish girls in a Persian village at the beginning of the twentieth century. Persian Brides is a widely-acclaimed, vibrant and award-winning debut of immense emotional power.

Author : Jennifer Klinec
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1455537683
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Temporary Bride written by Jennifer Klinec and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a true story of forbidden love set against the rich cultural and political backdrop of modern-day Iran. Jennifer Klinec is fearless. In her thirties, she abandons her bland corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London apartment and travel the world in search of delicious recipes and obscure culinary traditions. Her journey takes her to Iran, where she seeks out a local woman to learn the secrets of Persian cuisine. Vahid is suspicious of the strange foreigner who turns up in his mother's kitchen. Unused to such a bold and independent woman, he is frustrated to find himself, the prized only son of the house, largely ignored for the first time. But when the two are thrown together on an unexpected adventure, they discover a mutual attraction that draws them irresistibly toward each other--but also pits them against harsh Iranian laws and customs, which soon threaten to tear the unlikely lovers apart. Getting under the skin of one of the most complex and fascinating nations on earth, THE TEMPORARY BRIDE is a soaring, intricately woven story of being loved, being fed, and struggling to belong. *Includes Reading Group Guide*

Author : Farideh Goldin
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683890
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wedding Song written by Farideh Goldin and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching personal story of family, religion, and community that shows the horror of growing up in the shadow of religious fundamentalism.

Author : Reyna Simnegar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781583303252
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persian Food from the Non-Persian Bride written by Reyna Simnegar and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christen Flack Behzadi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989085502
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persian Wedding Book written by Christen Flack Behzadi and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Persian Wedding Book is a practical guide to preparing, having and enjoying a Persian (Iranian) wedding for brides, grooms, families and guests. It is also a joyous celebration of Persian weddings, rich with photographs of dazzlingly beautiful items unique to Iranian wedding ceremonies, and sparkling with historical facts, explanations of symbolism, and moments of poetry that honor the great Iranian tradition. The author, Dr. Christen Behzadi, M.D., is an American-born bride married in a Persian wedding ceremony, and she shares her story from beginning to end, allowing brides-to-be and wedding planners to follow the process step-by-step and learn all they need to know to make their own wedding ceremonies an exquisite success. The Persian Wedding Book is packed with valuable real-life tips about what to do, what order to do it in, how to set up one's Sofreh Aghd (the heart of the Iranian wedding celebration), how to find vendors, what expected dress standards are, how to learn the appropriate dances, what foods to feature, what gifts to bring, what courtesies to show (and what social mistakes to avoid), and much much more. The financial responsibilities of the bride and groom and their families are discussed in detail. Associated parties and ceremonies, such as the Ashnaei, the Khastegari, the Baleh-Baron, Namzadi, the Jahaz-Baron, the Hana Bandan, and the Grand Reception (Jashn-Aroosi) are all covered in detail. Even non-Iranian brides seeking new and exciting ideas to individualize their weddings can find ideas on every page; but for the Iranian bride or family planning a truly Persian wedding in any city in the world, here is all the information needed to fashion their own unforgettable ceremony. If you are an Iranian bride or groom, the family of an Iranian bride or groom, friends or guests of such brides or grooms, The Persian Wedding Book is an absolute necessity to planning, fashioning, and celebrating a successful and celebrated wedding that will be an ongoing joy and a memory to cherish for all concerned.

Author : Dorit Rabinyan
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780747557678
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Weddings written by Dorit Rabinyan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time Matty is born, Iran and Solly's four older children are longing to fall in love. But the simplicity of their parent's romance seems as distant to them as a fairy tale. Each finds a life rich in unhappiness, filling Iran's home with whispers and wails, none more piercing than her own.

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429903368
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persian Pickle Club written by Sandra Dallas and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her magical, memorable novel, Sandra Dallas explores the ties of loyalty and friendship that unite the women in a quilting circle in Depression-era Kansas It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there's not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip, and putting their quilting skills to good use. When a new member of the club stirs up a dark secret, the women must band together to support and protect one another.

Author : Kat Martin
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 1488095965
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal's Bride written by Kat Martin and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Set in 1854 England, this steamy trilogy opener” from a New York Times–bestselling author “is an enjoyable mixture of tension and romance” (Publishers Weekly). After years abroad, Royal has returned to Bransford Castle to find his father dying and the family treasury nearly empty. Then the old duke wrests a final promise from his guilt-ridden son: that Royal will marry heiress Jocelyn Caulfield and restore the estate to its former glory. However, it is not his fiancée who quickens Royal’s pulse, but rather her beautiful cousin Lily Moran. Penniless Lily knows that nothing can come of their undeniable attraction but there is a way she can help Royal. Enlisting some questionable characters from her past, Lily concocts an elaborate ruse to recover some of the Bransford fortune from a notorious confidence artist. As the dangerous scheme unfolds, Lily and Royal are thrown together in pursuit of the very thing—money—that keeps them apart.

Author : Dorit Rabinyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persian Brides written by Dorit Rabinyan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set at the beginning of the century in the fictional Persian town of Omerijan, Persian Brides tells the story of two Jewish girls, Flora Ratoryan and her orphaned cousin Nazie. Fifteen years old, pregnant, and recently abandoned by her cloth-merchant husband, Flora longs desperately for the return of her unborn baby's father. Nazie consoles and pities her, and though she is still only a child of eleven, Nazie yearns for her own marriage to Floras brother, Moussa, to whom she was betrothed as an infant.Although the narrative spans only a few days, it branches out and back, encompassing the lives and histories of many of the inhabitants of the almond tree alley in Omerijan where Flora and Nazie live. There is Nosrat, an unattractive woman who hides her features from her handsome husband by spreading a thin layer of goat butter over his glasses; Miriam Hanoun, Flora's mother, whose long-standing hatred of cats leads to a feline revenge; and Mamou, the local whore who, according to the neighborhood women, is carrying the child of the king of the village demons.Rabinyan's vivid depiction of the village is a sensual feast, recreating the odors, flavors, colors, sounds, and textures of everyday life. A masterful blend of fantasy and reality, the narrative forcefully conveys shocking cruelties endured by many of the characters while at the same time weaving a modern-day Arabian legend where snakes offer jewels in exchange for milk and death is thwarted by appeasing the village demons. Written with passion and elegance, Persian Brides brings a rich array of characters to life, telling of their hardships without ever losing the magic and wonder that is so much a part of their lives.