![]() While Roya’s family welcomes Bahman-although Zari warns Roya that his heart cannot be trusted-Bahman’s emotionally volatile mother refuses to accept the engagement, because she has already chosen Shahla, the daughter of a man closely allied with the shah, for her son. Tuesday after Tuesday, the couple falls more deeply in love, and Bahman soon proposes marriage to Roya. Kamali ( Together Tea, 2013) sets Roya and Bahman’s love against the tumultuous days of Mohammad Mossadegh’s rise and fall as prime minister of Iran, infusing their affair with political passion and an increasingly frantic sense of the shortness of time. There she first sees Bahman Aslan, a breathless young man already well-known as a political activist. Fakhri’s stationery and book store every Tuesday afternoon. ![]() While he hoped she might become a chemist, Roya loved escaping into novels, which sent her to Mr. But will he break her heart again?īack in 1953, she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl, raised in a progressive home in Tehran, where her father encouraged Roya and her sister, Zari, to take advantage of the recent reforms that allowed women to go to university. ![]() ![]() Sixty years after her first love failed to meet her in a market square, Roya Khanom Archer finally has the chance to see him. ![]()
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