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The Blindfold Horse

Memories of a Persian Childhood

By: Shusha Guppy

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The Blindfold Horse

Memories of a Persian Childhood

By: Shusha Guppy

In this eloquent memoir, Shusha Guppy recreates the lost world of her childhood in Tehran before the oil boom and the eventual overthrow of the Shah. Long before the momentous Iranian Revolution of 1979, which placed the country under strict religious rule, Shusha Guppy grew up in a Persia delicately balanced between traditional Islamic society and the transforming forces of westernisation. Guppy's magical tales about relatives and friends, music and drama, religious holidays and celebrations are interwoven with myth and legend, poetry and anecdote and provide a rare and optimistic portrayal of Iran; quite at odds with prevailing views of the country today. Through these glimpses of everyday life she makes subtle yet astute social and political observations at a significant time in Iran's history, when the country was caught between the oppressive but stable disciplines of the past and the unsettling freedoms of the future. This is an enlightening and moving testimony of a vanished world: a story as vibrant as Iran itself.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857710958

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9780857710956

The Blindfold Horse

Memories of a Persian Childhood

By: Shusha Guppy

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Memories of a Persian Childhood

By: Shusha Guppy

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Three Journeys in the Levant

By: Shusha Guppy

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Three Journeys in the Levant

By: Shusha Guppy

I have nothing but praise for Shusha Guppy's excellent book on the Levant... Her insights into the Near East... Her facility with history, art, religions and poetry of those ancient regions... Her traveller's fascination... These, and many other delights, are presented to us with a captivating informality.- Patrick Leigh FermorOf previous works by the author: " The Blindfold Horse is a deeply moving book, evoking a whole civilization which was shaken to dust by the 1979 revolution."- Anthony Smith, The Times"Looking Back is a feast. A galaxy of remarkable ladies, rendered by the remarkable Shusha Guppy."- Edna O'Brien

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160

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Starhaven

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0936315172

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9780936315171

The Secret of Laughter

Magical Tales from Classical Persia

By: Shusha Guppy

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The Secret of Laughter

Magical Tales from Classical Persia

By: Shusha Guppy

Shusha Guppy, editor of The London Paris Review and prize winning author, narrates this unique collection of Persian stories that have been handed down through the generations. Although their sources have been lost over the ages, their memory runs through the collective psyche of the Iranian people and each tale reflects a deep cultural and psychological insight into the attitudes, values and structures which constitute Iranian society.

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232

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Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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184511695X

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9781845116958

Looking Back

A Panoramic View of a Literary Age by the Grandes Dames of European Letters

By: Shusha Guppy

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A Panoramic View of a Literary Age by the Grandes Dames of European Letters

By: Shusha Guppy

Growing up in Mississippi, Eva knows at an early age that hers will be a difficult life. Her father, a closet transvestite, is an alienated and pathetic man, whilst her mother is a severe alcoholic with a voracious appetite for sex. By the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway.

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308

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0671718142

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9780671718145

Book's by Shusha Guppy

The Blindfold Horse

The Blindfold Horse

The Blindfold Horse

The Blindfold Horse

Three Journeys in the Levant

Three Journeys in the Levant

The Secret of Laughter

The Secret of Laughter

Looking Back

Looking Back

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