Turquoise Sky:: Days of Wild Hyacinth

TURQUOISE SKY: Days of Wild Hyacinth is a fresh rare portrait of a complex culture. The story is set in the late 1960s when Iranian society is in the throes of modernization and White Revolution is enacted from the throne. A woman living in Toronto reconstructs that world in her mind. The book begins with an account of her young life in New Delhi and her return to spend a summer in Tehran. In the remaining parts of the novel the reader sees south Tehran where her father grew up as it has evolved then travels through the desert, mountain passes and caravanserai to a village at the foot of the Zagros Mountains in Isfahan where her mother was born. TURQUOISE SKY: Days of Wild Hyacinth is a creative memoir. It moves beyond life in the capital and the concerns of the upper middle class to reveal the inner workings and relationships in contemporary Iranian society through the lives of a bus driver, to a small village teacher, provincial engineer, Jewish physician, Assyrian seamstress, and a land owning family, as well as the trials of a female entrepreneur, workings of small town justice and khans, bandits, gendarmes, shepherds, quail hunters, diviners, carpet weavers and kitchen servants.