(Written: July 15, 2010)
I loved this book. Funny, funny, funny. All of the characters are like real people you know. Although, this book is very specific to Iran and is set in pre-World War 2; you can encounter these characters anytime, anywhere.
My hat is off to the author for making me laugh and be irritated, making me love some of the personages and feel sad for the others. And finally for making me feel nice warm sorrow at the end.
The author very well portrays the "out-dated", "old-fashioned" and mostly idiotic way "traditional" folk deal with issues and non-issues. They mostly do it by Making a mountain out of anthill.
A book that was so close to my heart, since (even though Armenia is pretty modern) there are still people around me who think that "honor of the family" in other people's eyes is more important than right and wrong, love and marriage, health, life, death. Nothing matters, but what outsiders think of "you" and "your family". And no one really listens to one another. Tricks, plots, jokes; jokes, plots and tricks.
And the author shows all this with light in his heart and a smile on his face.
Well done! 4 stars.
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