Early Reviewers
Prize-winning novel A Hundred Veils is now available as an audiobook read by the author.
A young American professor at the University of Tehran falls in love with an Iranian artist and is thwarted by social, political, and religious forces that seem beyond his control. Set in the time of the Shah, this is a heart-warming picture of the Iranian people who befriend, guide, love, and laugh at the naïve foreigner who wants more than anything to fit in.
The Islamic revolution in Iran did not arise out of thin air. For years, the country had seethed with repressed resentment of the Shah's heavy-handed, authoritarian policies. Illegal societies operated underground, some tracing back to the beginning of the Shah's reign. Nationalists, socialists, Marxists, and Islamic leftists and reformers—all with somewhat different agendas—juggled for influence and support. The universities, mosques, and tea houses were filled with discussions that ranged from the theoretical to the seditious. This novel presents a heart-warming picture of the Iranian people who befriend, guide, love, and laugh at Marco, a young American teaching at the University of Tehran when forces opposing the Shah were gathering strength. Marco naively assumes at first that U.S. help is wanted and appreciated by the Iranians, but soon he comes to see himself—in the eyes of some—as an instrument of the West's arrogant assertion of control. And then he falls in love.
- Media
- Digital audiobook
- Genres
- General Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction and Literature
- Offered by
- Real Nice Books (Publisher)
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- February 2023 Starts: 2023-02-01Ended: 2023-02-24
- On Sale
- 2023-01-23
- Countries
- USA and Canada
- Links
- Book Information
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- 9 reviewed, 1 marked not received
A Hundred Veils won first prize in the Publishers Weekly BookLife prize in the general fiction category when it was published in 2017.
Now you can listen as the author reads the brief couplets of Persian poetry at the beginning of some of the chapters and brings his own experience living in Iran to the reading.