Tehran rooftops

In this moving and revealing novel, Mhabud Siraji exposes the beauty — and sometimes violence — of Persian culture, while emphasizing the human emotions we all share. In a middle-class neighborhood in Tehran, Pasha Shahid, seventeen years old, spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his close friend Ahmed, joking sometimes and asking urgent questions about life at other times. Pasha hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been engaged since birth to another man, and the blissful time Pasha and Zari spent together quickly vanishes when Pasha, unintentionally, helps the Shah's secret police. The severe consequences wake him up to the harsh reality of living under a tyrant, and push Zari to make a shocking decision… An unforgettable novel about love and youth while Iran boils over a volcano.