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"The Cypress Tree is vivid testimony to Kamin Mohammadi's ebullient, irrepressible family whose courage to endure carries them through revolution, exile and return to triumphant survival. Devoid of self-pity and full of grace, the Mohammadi family motto might as well be: 'Whatever doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.' A memoir to inspire."
--Aminatta Forna
--Aminatta Forna
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Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with British attitudes to family, food and freedom. She was twenty-seven before she returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother's house in Abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very walls steeped in history. The Cypress Tree is Kamin's account of her journey home, to rediscover her Iranian self and to discover for the first time the story of her family: a sprawling clan that sprang from humble roots to bloom during the affluent, Biba-clad 1960s, only to be shaken by the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War and the heartbreak of exile, and toughened by the struggle for democracy that continues today. This moving and passionate memoir is a love letter both to Kamin's extraordinary family and to Iran itself, an ancient country which has survived so much modern tumult but where joy and resilience will always triumph over despair.
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The Beautiful Bending Cypress Tree,
By Bibi "Bibi" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Cypress Tree (Hardcover)
This book is deeply moving. Kamin generously shares with her readers the warm and kind family she grew up with, the experiences of life pre and post revolutionary Iran and beautifully explains the events in her own life intertwined with the web of history, politics and the changing moods inside and outside Iran. I don't know whether this book has touched me because I have experienced first hand the same set of events or because I am lucky enough to know the Mohammadi family. Either way, this is a poignant read.
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Evocative,
This review is from: The Cypress Tree (Hardcover)
Two things stand out most about this book - the wonderful hardback cover design and the powerful, evocative language used.Kamin Mohammadi's description of family life in pre-revolutionary Iran is full of love and is heart-warming. It's intimate and I sometimes even felt as if I was a spectator in the room. Mixed with that are evocative descriptions of Iran, her landscapes, environment, people and food especially. It's great, although - depending on personal taste - it can become slightly overblown (one too many "fields of gold" cited for example!). The revolution is the turning point, and going back to the intimacy of this book, the reader can feel the pity and powerlessness as a country is turned on its head and the family's previous harmony is broken. There's tragedy here - families displaced, the impact of war, but also redemption as new lives are started in the UK, and the family spreads to other countries and builds new links with Iran. I liked it a lot.
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Struck the balance between personal and public history,
This review is from: The Cypress Tree (Hardcover)
What a lovely piece of history in the face of the horrendous Iranian diaspora. Loved the contrasts between the author's developing life in London and that of left behind family members in Iran. Very very enjoyable read with a history lesson brought home poignantly.
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