The Stationery Shop of Tehran

The narration is inexplicably amazing.How emotions drive your actions and behavior not vice versa is explicitly explained.The sweetness of teenage love! 😍

I just love being left with the feeling of awe and sentimentality and this book hits hard with both. This tale is a depiction of having loved and then lost paired with beautiful writing.The story is so gorgeous yet so sad and leaves you overwhelmed with multiple emotions in the end. The political-historical setting is very straightforward and clear and helps in the portrayal of the culture. There is also the depiction of how time heals all but the scars are always there. It is unpredictable and unfurls the tiniest of secrets or twists all of a sudden. It also talks about the love of books, poetry and stationery shops.The love stories in the story are very passionate and at times very practical as well. I also loved the sister dynamic of Roya and Zari. The whole arc of “Why didn't you reply to my letters?” to “What letters??!!!” was as traumatizing as ever. And the ending is sad yet satisfactory.

The stationary shop of Tehran is a historical romance fiction set in Tehran, Iran. The book follows a girl named Roya who loved spending her time in the stationary shop of Tehran which is also a book store where she meets a political activist Bahman Aslan. Amidst the political turmoil in Tehran, Roya and Bahman fall in love but destiny has different plans for them.The book is written so beautifully and amazingly. I just couldn't put the book down. The book is unpredictable yet it unfolds many tiny secrets from time to time.It's a story about loss and grief; regrets and guilt; political turmoil ; acceptance and forgiveness.This book made me cry so much. This book was sad and heartbreaking yet beautiful. I still feel a lump in my throat! Especially the final pages-they're so hard to get through! But it's all worth it.And to my fellow Indian readers, you guys must be familiar with the ending of Veer Zara, this book has a similar kind of ending.

The book is so much more than just a romance. It is a little history, a little culture, relationships, psychology, everything mixed into one. Love it. Looking forward to read more books from this author.

The novel is great and deserves a 4+ star, but the quality of the print was very bad. It looks like a photocopy of some original print. Disappointed!

The Stationery Shop at Tehran' by Marjan Kamali✨✨The rush of first love, the all encompassing feeling of meeting someone who in a flip second takes over your being and begins to reign over your heart. Sounds familiar? Well, this book makes you traverse through a plethora of these emotions and you are almost swept by these heady feelings of love only to walk through the alleys of Tehran and stop at a quaint looking stationery shop.Roya, a young girl in love with books and the poetry of Rumi in particular, frequents a book shop run by Mr. Fakhri a simpleton who has a soft corner for reformers serving Iran and those instrumental in thwarting anti-democratic voices. Iran in the 1950s is turning a new leaf under a democratically elected Prime Minister. But, anti democratic forces are looking to oust him and we are made privy to the unrest that seeps within the lanes of the rustic Iranian alleys. Bahman a young boy who is a political activist often finds refuge in Mr. Fakhri's shop. It is here that he also meets Roya and love takes hold of them sudden and all pervasive. Oh, to be young and in love- the author takes us through the budding romance of these lovers in the most mush inducing manner and leaves us gushing and reminiscing our first brush with love!Amidst political turmoil the two lovers resolve to get married. But, fate has something else in store for them. Things go awry and they are separated.Roya along with her sister heads to US still reeling under the pain of a lost love, grieving profusely. She moves on in life but at one corner of her heart Bahman lives on never to be obliterated.Do Roya and Bahman meet again? Why couldn't they be together on that fateful day when they decided to wed? Read the book to find out☺️When one is reading a historical romance he/she hopes to learn about the cultural practices, political undercurrents of that place. Here we look into the political scene of Iran in 1953. But, the love story takes centre stage and the political upheaval stays buried in the background. We get to know about Iranian food and it would certainly be a treat for culinary enthusiasts.We also get a glimpse of the life of an expat grappling to adjust in US in the late 1950s. The writing is simple yet evocative. There is no unpredictability in the plot so to say but still the author manages to keep the reader invested in this love story. The story would seem a tad unrealistic especially in the recent times. But, despite that I Ioved the book because who mulls over practicalities when it comes to matters of heart. Right?