The Stationery Shop of Tehran (English Edition) -

Marjan Kamali

Simon & Schuster

2019

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9781471185038

1953, Tehran. Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the local stationery shop run by Mr. Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick pads of writing paper, also carries translations of literature from all over the world. And when Mr. Fakhri introduces her to his other favorite customer -- handsome Bahman, with his burning passion for justice and a shared love for Rumi's poetry -- Roya loses her heart at once. But around them, life in Tehran is changing.

On the eve of their marriage, Roya heads to the town square to meet with Bahman. Suddenly, shockingly, violence erupts: a coup d'etat that forever changes their country's future. Bahman never arrives.

Roya must piece her life back together. Her parents, wanting her to be safe, enroll her in college in California, where she meets and marries another man. But, nearly sixty years later, an accident of fate finally brings her the answer she has always wanted to know - Why did you leave? Where did you go? How is it that you were able to forget me?

Marjan Kamali's beautiful novel, set in a country poised for democracy but destroyed by political upheaval, explores issues that have never been more timely, of immigration and cultural assimilation, of the quirks of fate. And its ending will break readers' hearts.

Resenhas (7)

5 (Perfeito)

Uma vida, alguns romances e cenas repletas de emoção

"She would not have understood then, that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in the Stationery Shop, always."
"The Stationery Shop" começa com um romance entre dois jovens, eles se amam, mas outras pessoas e os acontecimentos da vida fazem com que eles se separem. Esse não é um livro para rir, mas sim para se emocionar com cada parte, com cada história. Não é apenas um romance, é um retrato de momentos políticos e descobrimento pessoal.
Esse livro me surpreendeu, a escrita é maravilhosa, ela nos guia mansamente pela vida de Roya, os personagens também são ótimos, eles parecem reais.
Apesar de ter ficado triste com o final, gostei muito dele, deu para perceber o quanto nossos personagens cresceram e como um amor verdadeiro é capaz de durar a vida inteira.