After the enthusiastic revolutionaries attacked Hoshanak's house and burned musical instruments, books, and all the things they considered forbidden, he decided to leave Tehran, taking his wife, Rosa, his two sons, Sohrab and Beta, and the third daughter, Bahar, to settle in a distant village, hoping Preserving their intellectual freedom and their lives. But they soon find themselves caught up in the chaos of the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution sweeping the country.
The fates of all family members change, and they are divided between pain and memory, between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and the times, events, and narrative spaces that “Bahar” narrates intersect, mixing violence and brutality with mysticism, meditation, magic, and myths, invoking oral narrative traditions to confront cruelty with the power of imagination.
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020, Green Plum Tree's Rise is a fascinating journey through Persian history and mythology, woven in the style of magical realism, exploring the fate of hope and dream in Iran today.
UAE is a homeland journey:
Therefore, in that book, I was keen to present a historical vision that explains and narrates the great efforts of the founders of the United Arab Emirates, and then the progress that the Emirates has achieved that is comparable to the great countries, and how the loyal men of our country established the concept of the national state, and the keenness to protect the homeland against any threat or danger, and on It is necessary for the new generations of the people of this dear country to follow the same path as our great grandfathers and fathers who sacrificed the precious and valuable in order for the banner of this great country to remain.
