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Overview

Through war and peace, loss and triumph, the strongest among us do what they can to hold onto their dreams.

Maryam Tabibzadeh?s rich novel invites the reader to experience one hundred years of Iranian history through the eyes of its passionate characters.

Talah: Born in the late nineteenth century to a well-to-do family, she must find a way
to survive after the loss of her second husband.

Baback: In an era of great social change, Talah's first son struggles with his faith as he becomes involved in a heated love affair.

Nosha: Strong and ambitious, the daughter of Baback won't accept the second-class citizenship that her country has traditionally forced upon females. Interweaving fact and fiction, Persian Dreams brings to life a culture and history

that is largely unknown to Westerners, revealing a family, and a story you will never forget.

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"A strong and powerful intimate tale of one family's greatest struggle in a time of pain for all, May 8, 2007 A timeless novel, Persian Dreams by author and poet Maryam Tabibzadeh is the superbly crafted and engaging story of three people whose lives and struggles propel them through one hundred years of history in a country of continuous political struggle, and the destructiveness of war.
Shirley Roe, Allbooks Review
Persian Dreams are the dreams of the women of Persia/Iran;dreams of freedom of choice, freedom to choose the man they wish to marry and freedom to become all that they can be.

Maryam Tabibzadeh is a born storyteller. She draws the reader into the story with magnificent detail, heart wrenching emotion and lifelike characters. Persian Dreams is the fascinating story of three generations.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780979411205
  • Publisher: Dreambooks
  • Publication date: 4/28/2007
  • Pages: 404
  • Sales rank: 963,915
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

About the Author
Maryam Tabibzadeh was born in Darab, Pars, in Persia (known as
Iran). She got her master’s degree from Shiraz University and moved
to the United States. She attended SUNY Binghamton to further her
education in 1980.

Maryam has been writing short novels and poems in Persian for
the past twenty years. Her short stories, published in the North Carolina
Persian Newsletter, include Omid va Bahar (Hope and Spring),
Az Shame Pors Gheseh (Ask the Candle about My Love), and Rozi Keh
Neyamad (Th e Day Which Never Came).

Maryam resides in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is a member of NCWN and
SCBWIC and The Persian Studies Advisory Committee of UNCC

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 13, 2007

    Persian Dreams

    'Like American 'Gone with the Wind' and Russian¿s 'War and Peace' Persian Dreams combines the sweetness of romance with the bitterness of revelation and war. This story is told from the unique perspective of a woman between lands. It shows the inward nature and inside perspectives of the people of Iran, specifically the women, leading up to and directly after the revolution of 1978. This perspective is unique because we usually get a picture of this from the outside, from the American or foreign point of view, but here we see the situation from the inside. The historic lesson is only further enhanced by the sweet romantic events of a family through three generations. This novel is both sweetly nostalgic and simultaneous educational

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 26, 2006

    A true story of my land

    -A very exciting novel. First time in history a novel happens in region I come from which is written in English! Part of the novel even happens in my little hometown. My friends from different parts of the world are reading through this book the history of my land and the region I grew up. They can now picture the society I come from, from my great grandmother generation to the current time. I was so deeply in the book that I could not stop reading it even at the breakfast table or in the bath. I enjoyed reading it on the porch while listening to birds singing in a beautiful weekend of April which would simulate the air of Kazeroon at this time of the year. It brought me melancholy! I could picture myself on the roof where I spent many nights of summer reading. I remembered those nights on `takht¿, counting the stars until falling sleep. I pictured delicate weather of spring with fragrance of orange blossoms in air. I remembered harsh winters with hale, storm and flood. -Written in the style of Persian fairy tales, one feature of the novel is that the story starts in far past and matures in present. This is unlike most of the novels that start in present and then take back the reader to the past. Because of this feature, the style of the novel becomes ¿unique¿ and takes the style of the Persian fairy tales. That is, reader witnesses the retelling of the events i.e. we hear the story of Tala¿s life which we have already read about (since the story started in the past) as she tells her biography to her curious grand daughter, Nosha (as happens in present). BR BR -Poems are the highlight of the book. They are as if i.e. Rumi had versed them for this novel for particular scenes of the tale! BR

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 2, 2006

    Love stories reveal Persian history and roles of women

    I was drawn into the plot through the plights of the articulate characters, all of whom were well woven together into this orderly collage of Persian experience. The amount of Persian poetry (translated) was amazing. The author had memorized all of it and it flowed smoothly into the story line. I don't usually have the patience for novels, but this was an exception. Besides its ability to capture my mind and time, it was an easy path to explore the intricate political and cultural worlds of Persia (Iran). I could not put this book down.

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