Publisher's Synopsis
This record of a childhood spent in the ritual-filled, privileged days of Persia before Khomeini, evokes a civilization shaken to dust by the 1979 revolution. It is an account of the domestic life of a society which was slowly moving from traditional to western ways.;Shusha Guppy was born and brought up in Persia and later educated in Paris. She is the London editor of the "Paris Review" and is also well known as a singer and songwriter and has made numerous recordings of her own and other songwriters' works.
