Mahbod Seraji
Autor(a) de Rooftops of Tehran
About the Author
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Obras por Mahbod Seraji
Associated Works
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Contribuidor — 558 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1958
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Iran (birth)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 501
- Popularidade
- #49,399
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 34
- ISBN
- 15
- Línguas
- 5
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
The protagonist is an older teenager, Pasha, and he falls in love with the neighbor girl who is engaged to marry another man. This love triangle is disrupted, but to tell how will ruin the book, so let's just say that the book illustrates what living in a country under a dictator might be like - - but in stark human terms.
What I loved about the book is the way the author draws his characters - - they are easy to care about and their thought process is familiar to all of us who have fallen in love for the very first time (meaning all of us, right?). He also does an amazing job of showing the challenges of living under a dictatorship - - not telling, but truly showing.
The book is very fast paced and hard to put down for the first half of the book. The protagonist is in a mental hospital at the beginning of the book, and the author alternates scenes from Pasha's life with scenes from the mental hospital - - and this is a wonderful way to build suspense as you are questioning from the very beginning what possibly could have happened to this boy.
If I were to have any criticism is that you find out what happened in the middle of the book, and then the next 20-25% or so doesn't have that same compelling "I can't stop reading this" feeling. At least it didn't for me. But my patience with the slower pace of this section totally paid off as the ending is both unexpected and satisfying.
So while the book had some imperfections, I felt that overall it deserved the fifth star for the great character development, the plotting, and the great rendering of an unfamiliar setting. If you liked books like The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone - - I'm quite sure you'll find this to be a terrific read.… (mais)