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The-Stationery-Shop-by-Marjan-Kamali:A-poignant,-heartfelt-new-novel-by-the-award-nominated-author-of Together-Tea—extolled-by-the Wall-Street-Journal as-a-“moving-tale-of-lost-love”-and-by Shelf-Awareness as-“a-powerful,-heartbreaking-story”—explores-loss,-reconciliation,-and-the-quirks-of-fate.Roya,-a-dreamy,-idealistic-teenager-living-amid-the-political-upheaval-of-1953-Tehran,finds-a-literary-oasis-in-kindly-Mr.-Fakhri’s-neighborhood-stationery-shop,-stocked-with-books-and-pens-and-bottles-of-jewel-colored-ink.Then-Mr.-Fakhri,-with-a-keen-instinct-for-a-budding-romance,introduces-Roya-to-his-other-favorite-customer—handsome-Bahman,who-has-a-burning-passion-for-justice-and-a-love-for-Rumi’s-poetry—and-she-loses-her-heart-at-once.Their-romance-blossoms,-and-the-little-stationery-shop-remains-their-favorite-place-in-all-of-Tehran.A-few-short-months-later,-on-the-eve-of-their-marriage,-Roya-agrees-to-meet-Bahman-at-the-town-square-when-violence-erupts—a-result-of-the-coup-d’etat-that-forever-changes-their-country’s-future.In-the-chaos,-Bahman-never-shows.-For-weeks,Roya-tries-desperately-to-contact-him,-but-her-efforts-are-fruitless.With-a-sorrowful-heart,-she-moves-on—to-college-in-California,to-another-man,-to-a-life-in-New-England—until,-more-than-sixty-years-later,an-accident-of-fate-leads-her-back-to-Bahman-and-offers-her-a-chance-to-ask-him-the-questions-that-have-haunted-her-for-more-than-half-a-century:Why-did-you-leave?-Where-did-you-go?-How-is-it-that-you-were-able-to-forget-me?
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