Stationery Shop of Tehran.

'THE STATIONERY SHOP OF TEHRAN'  BY MARJAN KAMALI.

Book Review🍂

‘A boy who would change the world’

This is the phrase Roya hears about that man from Fakir.

In 1953, in the little corner of Tehran, Roya meets Bahman, a revolutionary young man who is very much interested in politics, who fell in love with her madly, who was ready to oppose the whole world to marry her. Bahman, a vibrant young man fights for his country and takes sides in politics. Tehran is doused in chaos, politics penetrates into the lives of common men and women, students aren’t exceptional. 

Amidst the chaos, Bahman meets Roya in Fakir's stationery shop and falls in love with her.  Initially, their courtship is only known to Fakir.

Over the days, Bahman discloses their relationship to both the families, Roya's family is progressive and accepts Bahman's proposal to Roya but Bahman’s mother who suffers from derangement, opposes this relationship, considering the middle class background of Roya.

One day, Bahman vanishes with the surging political dispute in the country. 

Roya receives a letter from Bahman asking her to meet him in the country square, Did Roya and Bahman meet? 

This novel made me get enraged towards many characters due to their insensitivity and arrogance.

The ending is flabbergasting and untoward. Though this is a romantic story, written in an elegant language with the political background of a country, the plot is overwhelming and heart wrecking. The impact of first relationship and the consequences is brilliantly sketched. 

I wish I hadn’t read the last part of this novel, it is totally insane and inconsiderate.  I mean😭 it shouldn't have happened!

 *Author has to edit the last part😭*

Recommending this book to the readers who deliberately want to break their heart.