IN THE WALLED GARDENS tells the nostalgic and moving story of Mahastee and Reza, who loved each other as children but have not seen each other for 20 years. Trapped by the privileged society of her youth, Mahastee struggles in an increasingly empty adult married existence. Meanwhile, Reza has grown up to become a Marxist revolutionary, leading underground meetings and living on the edge. When chance brings them together again, their story is not only a portrait of ill-fated love, but of worlds at odds, moving ever closer to ...
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IN THE WALLED GARDENS tells the nostalgic and moving story of Mahastee and Reza, who loved each other as children but have not seen each other for 20 years. Trapped by the privileged society of her youth, Mahastee struggles in an increasingly empty adult married existence. Meanwhile, Reza has grown up to become a Marxist revolutionary, leading underground meetings and living on the edge. When chance brings them together again, their story is not only a portrait of ill-fated love, but of worlds at odds, moving ever closer to doomed collision.
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This book rec'd stellar reviews on another site. I wish I could agree. I was looking forward to an exploration of pre-revolution Iranian culture and emotion but both the writing and the story (in my opinion) were incredibly choppy so I've just had to put it down. The story is also told from the two main characters' perspectives and I had a hard time trying to figure out which character was speaking. A nice touch would have been to title each chapter with the character's name who was speaking--it would have made it much easier when picking up the book after not reading for a while. Eventually, I found myself skimming a third to a half of it. After 150 pages, I lost interest and abandoned it.
One last thing, from other reviewers who have finished it: it is advertised as a romance but apparently it is not so if you're looking for something in that genre this may not be for you.
