The brightness of the green plum tree

After the enthusiastic revolutionaries' attack on "Hoshank" house and their burning of musical instruments, books, and all the things they consider forbidden, he decides to leave Tehran accompanied by his wife "Rosa", and his two sons "Sohrab" and "Bita", and the spirit of the third daughter "Bahar", to settle in a distant village, hoping to preserve their intellectual freedom and their lives. But they quickly find themselves trapped in the chaos after the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 that sweeps the country. All family members' destinies change, and they are divided between pain and memory, between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and the narrative spaces and times intertwine, narrated by "Bahar" blending violence and brutality with mysticism, contemplation, magic, and legends, evoking oral storytelling traditions to confront cruelty with the power of imagination. The novel "The Radiance of the Green Plum Tree" which reached the short list for the International Booker Prize in 2020, is a wonderful journey through Persian history and mythology, woven in a magical realism style, to explore the fate of hope and dreams in Iran today.