The Blindfold Horse (PDF)
Memories of a Persian Childhood
(Sprache: Englisch)
In this eloquent memoir, Shusha Guppy recreates the lost world of her childhood in Tehran before the oil boom and the eventual overthrow of the Shah.
Long before the momentous Iranian Revolution of 1979, which placed the country under strict...
Long before the momentous Iranian Revolution of 1979, which placed the country under strict...
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In this eloquent memoir, Shusha Guppy recreates the lost world of her childhood in Tehran before the oil boom and the eventual overthrow of the Shah.
Long before the momentous Iranian Revolution of 1979, which placed the country under strict religious rule, Shusha Guppy grew up in a Persia delicately balanced between traditional Islamic society and the transforming forces of westernisation.
Guppy's magical tales about relatives and friends, music and drama, religious holidays and celebrations are interwoven with myth and legend, poetry and anecdote and provide a rare and optimistic portrayal of Iran; quite at odds with prevailing views of the country today.
Through these glimpses of everyday life she makes subtle yet astute social and political observations at a significant time in Iran's history, when the country was caught between the oppressive but stable disciplines of the past and the unsettling freedoms of the future.
This is an enlightening and moving testimony of a vanished world: a story as vibrant as Iran itself.
Long before the momentous Iranian Revolution of 1979, which placed the country under strict religious rule, Shusha Guppy grew up in a Persia delicately balanced between traditional Islamic society and the transforming forces of westernisation.
Guppy's magical tales about relatives and friends, music and drama, religious holidays and celebrations are interwoven with myth and legend, poetry and anecdote and provide a rare and optimistic portrayal of Iran; quite at odds with prevailing views of the country today.
Through these glimpses of everyday life she makes subtle yet astute social and political observations at a significant time in Iran's history, when the country was caught between the oppressive but stable disciplines of the past and the unsettling freedoms of the future.
This is an enlightening and moving testimony of a vanished world: a story as vibrant as Iran itself.
Autoren-Porträt von Shusha Guppy
Shusha Guppy was born and brought up in Iran. She went to Paris when she was 17 to study at the Sorbonne, and moved to London in the early 1960s. London editor of The Paris Review, she contributed to publications on both sides of the Atlantic. A well-known writer and singer/songwriter, she was the author of the prize winning The Blindfold Horse and A Girl in Paris. She died in 2008, aged 72.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Shusha Guppy
- 2004, 256 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- ISBN-10: 0857710958
- ISBN-13: 9780857710956
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.2004
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