The Blindfold Horse by Shusha Guppy
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. In this eloquent memoir, she recreates the lost world of her childhood before the oil boom and the eventual overthrow of the Shah. Her 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. This is an enlightening and moving testimony of a vanished world: a story as vibrant as Iran itself.
Sunday Times: "ExquisiteIt conveys a sense of the country and its customs, which reveal better than most documents, the nature of the crisis which Iran is still enduring." John Train, author and co-founder of the Paris Review: "One of the best books of the 20th century... Stands comparison with Out of Africa." '...(the book) has long held the status of a classic...It remains the perfect memoir, and one of the best books for acquainting readers with Persia...'Social Affairs Unit, April 2005
Shusha Guppy was born and brought up in Iran. She moved to Paris when she was 17 to study at the Sorbonne and moved to London in the early 1960s. Formerly London Editor of The Paris Review, she wrote for publications on both sides of the Atlantic and as a broadcaster she contributed to a variety of cultural programmes for the BBC. Shusha was the author of two prize-winning and much-loved memoirs, The Blindfold Horse and A Girl in Paris, as well as the acclaimed The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia. She died in 2008.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781850434016 |
| ISBN 10 | 1850434018 |
| Title | The Blindfold Horse |
| Author | Shusha Guppy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2008-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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