توضیحات
‘Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with British attitudes to family, food and freedom. She was twenty-seven before she returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother’s house in Abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very wallssteeped in history. The Cypress Tree is Kamin’s account of her journey home, to rediscover her Iranian self and to discover for the first time the story of her family: a sprawling clan that sprang from humble roots to bloom during the affluent, Biba-clad 1960s, only to be shaken by the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War and the heartbreak of exile, and toughened by the struggle for democracy that continues today. This moving and passionate memoir is a love letter both to Kamin’s extraordinary family and to Iran itself, an ancient country which has survived so much modern tumult but where joy and resilience will always triumph over despair.’ Read more…
Abstract: ‘Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with British attitudes to family, food and freedom. She was twenty-seven before she returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother’s house in Abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very wallssteeped in history. The Cypress Tree is Kamin’s account of her journey home, to rediscover her Iranian self and to discover for the first time the story of her family: a sprawling clan that sprang from humble roots to bloom during the affluent, Biba-clad 1960s, only to be shaken by the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War and the heartbreak of exile, and toughened by the struggle for democracy that continues today. This moving and passionate memoir is a love letter both to Kamin’s extraordinary family and to Iran itself, an ancient country which has survived so much modern tumult but where joy and resilience will always triumph over despair.’
«کمین محمدی نه ساله بود که خانواده اش در جریان انقلاب ۱۳۵۷ از ایران گریختند. او که از تغییرات لرزهای در سرزمین مادریاش گیج شده بود، به گذشته پشت کرد و سالهای نوجوانی خود را گذراند تا با نگرش بریتانیا به خانواده، غذا و آزادی هماهنگ شود. او قبل از بازگشت به ایران، بیست و هفت ساله بود، و خاطرات خانه مادربزرگش در آبادان، با حیاط سنتی درونی، مجالس پر سر و صدای آن، مجالس پر سر و صدا و آن را به خود جلب کرده بود. بسیار پر از دیوار در تاریخ درخت سرو روایت کمین از سفر او به خانه است، تا دوباره خود ایرانی خود را کشف کند و برای اولین بار داستان خانواده اش را کشف کند: طایفه ای پراکنده که در دهه 1960 از ریشه های فروتن بیرون آمدند و شکوفا شدند و فقط تا از وحشت جنگ ایران و عراق و دل شکستگی تبعید به لرزه درآیند و با مبارزه برای دموکراسی که امروز ادامه دارد، سخت تر شوند. این خاطرات تکان دهنده و پرشور، نامه ای عاشقانه است هم به خانواده فوق العاده کمین و هم به خود ایران، کشوری باستانی که از غوغاهای مدرن جان سالم به در برده است، اما شادی و پایداری همیشه بر ناامیدی پیروز خواهد شد.’ ادامه مطلب…
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