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The Quince Seed Potion: A Novel
Author(s): Morteza Baharloo (Author)
- Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S.
- Publication Date: 16 Sept. 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 1882593871
- ISBN-13: 9781882593873
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
…a raw and beguiling epic that offers up an intimate view of a world still unknown to most.–Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories
…powerfully captures the dilemma of being caught between one’s individual desire and that of tradition…an honest, unsparing, poignant account of a world at once cruel and beautiful.–Nahid Rachlin, author of Foreigner and The Heart’s Desire
The Quince Seed Potion is a daring and unique novel…[it] is a book important for our times, a tale that will remind us that tradition is not so easily expunged by modern logic.–Susanne Pari, author of The Fortune Catcher[An] epic first novel….Absorbing….[A] haunting story.–Richard Labonte “Q Syndicate”
A deeply affecting novel…And Mort Baharloo, in writing his story, definitely shows that he knows more than most of us.–Jose Edmundo Paz Soldan, author of The Matter of Desire
A vigorous, raunchy tale spanning fifty turbulent years of Iranian history.–Gelareh Asayesh, author of Saffron Sky
A vivid portrait.– “Kirkus Reviews”
An epic that not only traces the story of a doomed pair but also follows the tumultuous history of Iran from 1928 to 1981.– “Persian Journal”
Engrossing, elegantly told story….A humanizing perspective on a history too many Americans know only through authoritarian stereotypes.–Whitney Scott “Booklist”
Interesting and [a] very different novel of modern Persia.–Jana Kraus “Mostlyfiction.Com”
The narrative progresses at a fast pace as the essence of the exotic setting unfolds.–Robert Ross, Boston College “Dallas Voice”
This is a novel that is simultaneously exotic and familiar, exotic in terms of locale and people but familiar in terms of the trials and tribulations of human everywhere.–M.K. Ghanoonparvar, Professor and author
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