In Dorit Rabinyan's second novel, the Azizyan family--Iranians living in Israel--has four daughters: the beautiful Sophia who marries a man in the tear-gas industry, the embarrassing Lizzie, the hapless Marcelle, and little Mattie who is haunted by her twin brother who died at birth.
Exploring the lives of two Jewish girls in a Persian village at the turn of the century, this novel spans two days in the life of 11-year-old Nazie and 15-year-old Flora. Nazie has been long engaged to her cousin and awaits their marriage, while Flora is married, pregnant and seemingly abandoned.
Iran meets Solly by the sea one evening. Iran's mother stitches 5854 pearls onto the wedding dress and with 5754 of them the couple buy a tiny flat shaded by guava trees. They have five children, who, surrounded by their parents' passion, grow up longing to fall in love.
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