The Lion Women of Tehran

De: Marjan Kamali

Narrado por: Mozhan Navabi, Nikki Massoud

Duración: 10 h y 15 m

Resumen del Editor

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation.

Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming “lion women.”

But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.

Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.

Written with Marjan Kamali’s signature “evocative, devastating, and hauntingly beautiful” (Whitney Scharer, author of The Age of Light) prose, The Lion Women of Tehran is a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young, and the way love and courage transforms our lives.

©2024 Marjan Kamali (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio

Awesome story experience

Keeps you in suspense with every emotion. A story about true friendship and the fight for freedom.

Freedom

Beyond courageous. The depth of unrelenting bravery for individual women (human) rights. Bruised visceral passion, and compassionate hearts for forgiveness even after innocent betrayal speaks to the innate wisdom living and loving within all of us.

Wonderful story Awful Narration

Why o why can't we get narrators that can pronounce words in Farsi correctly? The person narrating Elahe's parts pronounces even the name Elahe with an American accent! I rather have narrators that read with a Persian accent but pronounce the Farsi words and phrases authentically than narrators that have crisp American accents. I now wish I had read the physical book rather than listened to it because it was so irksome to listen to these accents.

History of Iran from female perspective

I loved reading about the History of Iran from female perspective. I didn’t think it was the most well written book, but it was a very good and honest story , with good presiónalos developments of the characters, and I do highly recommend it

Amazing writing

This was an amazing read. Don’t hesitate. The story was easy to follow, had me on the edge of my chair wanting to know what happened next and also tugged at my heart. I will absolutely read another book by this author.

Amazing deep friendship

This story resonates deeply with me. Having spent much of my life under such dictatorship, especially as a woman, I can feel every aspect of it in every fiber of my being.

Wow so good

Loved it. A celebration of friendship and women while also bringing attention to important issues that are so easy for us in the US to forget but that are only a few generations away if we let them be.

Great book

This is a book you will think about long after you are done reading it.

I devoured this book

I spend much of my life chasing the high I experienced as a kid of finding a book so enthralling I can’t put it down. This is not something that happens often, but when it does, I savor every moment. This book is one of those rare finds that’s so easy to devour but where you live in fear of finishing it. I am immensely grateful for listening to the audio book, as well, to hear proper pronunciation of Persian words.

This is a story that feels at once familiar and so, so foreign to ignorant American ears. It tells of the raw experiences of girlhood and friendship, of growing through the selfishness of youth, and of the complicated relationship to mothers and the rest of the world. It also tells of the heartbreak of revolution and a government making decisions without a consideration of its effects on its citizens. It is a testament to the sheer power and beauty of femininity. Ms. Kamali did an amazing job of integrating how this can happen in the background of one’s life without notice if you don’t pay attention. It serves as a warning for what could happen to any of us at any given time. I am also ashamed to say how little I knew of Iran’s history prior to reading this book. I am grateful to have read it and for the research/learning that has followed.

This book is so beautifully written with the perfect amount of description. I felt I was there and often found myself hungry while listening, lol. I find myself in Ellie with hopes of being even a fraction of the shir-zan that Homa is.

This is one of those stories that can and will stick with me for the rest of my life. I’m recommending it to everyone I know in hopes they experience the magic and heartbreak I did.

So great.

Extraordinary story of friendship, loyalty, activism, and immigrant experience. Loved every minute. I will be looking for the cafe in my hometown now 😉