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The Temporary Bride - A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran

Inglese · Tascabile

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@2@@18@A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn't be, therefore, that their Iranian son could feel desire for someone six years his senior,someone who didn't come to him pure and untouched. I was an amusing visitor from another world and soon enough I should return to it, fading quietly into an anecdote ... @19@@3@@2@@20@In her thirties, Jennifer Klinec abandons a corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London flat. Raised in Canada to Hungarian-Croatian parents, she has already travelled to countries most people are fearful of, in search of ancient recipes. Her quest leads her to Iran where, hair discreetly covered and eyes modest, she is introduced to a local woman who will teach her the secrets of the Persian kitchen.@21@@3@@2@@20@Vahid, her son, is suspicious of the strange foreigner who turns up in his mother's kitchen; he is unused to seeing an independent woman. But a compelling attraction pulls them together and then pits them against harsh Iranian laws and customs. @21@@3@@2@@20@Getting under the skin of one of the most complex and fascinating nations on earth, @18@The Temporary Bride @19@is a soaring story of being loved, being fed, and the struggle to belong.@21@@3@

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Autori Jennifer Klinec
Editore Virago Press Ltd
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 31.12.2017
 
EAN 9781844088249
ISBN 978-1-84408-824-9
Pagine 288
Dimensioni 127 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
Serie Virago Press
Categorie Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie
Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio > Asia

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

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