The Persian Bride: A Novel
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ISBN: 0618219234 / Publisher: Mariner Books, June 2002
Hastily married to a seventeen-year-old girl while traveling in Iran in 1974, a young Englishman is forced to endure the revolution and its violent consequences while he searches for his bride amidst the chaos.
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At once a great love story, a riveting political thriller, and a profound analysis of modern Iran, THE PERSIAN BRIDE is unflinching in its vision of twentieth-century chaos. In 1974, the young Englishman John Pitt follows the hippie trail to Isfahan, where he encounters the enchanting Shirin Farameh. These two young people fall desperately in love and marry, despite their cultural differences and the political upheaval surrounding them. When they are tragically separated, John sets off in search of his wife on a nightmare journey that takes him from the corrupt court of the shah to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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