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"Guppy's memoir of life in Iran before the Ayatollahs is exquisite. It conveys a sense of the country and its customs, which reveal better than most documents, the nature of the crisis which Iran is still enduring." -William Shawcross, Sunday Times (London)
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'Guppy s memoir of life in Iran before the Ayatollahs is exquisite. It conveys a sense of the country and its customs, which reveal better than most documents, the nature of the crisis which Iran is still enduring.' --William Shawcross, Sunday Times
'One of the best books of the 20th century... Stands comparison with 'Out of Africa'.' --John Train, author and co-founder of the Paris Review
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'One of the best books of the 20th century... Stands comparison with 'Out of Africa'.' --John Train, author and co-founder of the Paris Review
Shusha Guppy was born and brought up in Iran. She moved to Paris when she was 17 to study at the Sorbonne and moved to London in the early 1960s. Formerly London Editor of The Paris Review, she wrote for publications on both sides of the Atlantic and as a broadcaster she contributed to a variety of cultural programmes for the BBC. Shusha was the author of two prize-winning and much-loved memoirs, The Blindfold Horse and A Girl in Paris, as well as the acclaimed The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia. She died in 2008.
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- PublisherBeacon Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0807070432
- ISBN 13 9780807070437
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