I wanted to read this book not yet translated into French (it was announced in January 2015). So I read in one sitting in its Spanish version. Masumeh protagonist-narrator tells us in first person his life in Iran of the Shah to the present day through the Komeini revolution and Iran-Iraq war, his teenage and well platonic love but can destroy the family honor, his rebellion against forced marriage, her arranged marriage, his dedication to his children and a husband involved in revolutionary movements, his desire to continue his studies, his hesitations between its aspiration to be a free woman and her respect for family and religious traditions. In the background, the evolution of Iran, the turnarounds and consequent reversals jacket, opportunism of some of his relatives after the banning of the company for having married a revolutionary the use as a banner of the revolution to be the widow of the man who became a hero. A book that can be read like a romance novel, but also as a document and a chronicle of an era
