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This item may be Check for Availability This title in other editionsSaved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iranby Roger Housden
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The author of Ten Poems to Change Your Life challenges popular misconceptions about Iran's youth culture, describing his visits to regions that inspired Rumi and Hafez, where he learned about the rich histories, cuisines and arts that comprise everyday life.
About the AuthorROGER HOUSDEN is the author of some twenty books, including the best-selling Ten Poems series and the novella Chasing Rumi. English by birth, he has been a writer for the Guardian and an interviewer for the BBC. Housden emigrated to the States in 1998 and now lives in the Bay Area. Visit himat www.rogerhousden.com
Table of ContentsWriting Iran — Leaving the known — Paradise and poetry — Talking stones — Return to the source — The blue dome — Drink the wine — More than one veil — Christmas in Tehran — One imam and three wise men — The sorrow in Shiraz — Razor's edge — Politics as usual — In Mesopotamia — Return to beauty — Interrogation, with room service.
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