About this title: Wearing journeys to Iran under the guise of a honeymoon and a hejab. Her experience is dotted with frustrations--not the least of which is Ian, her traveling companion--but reveals the overwhelming hospitality of a religiously oppressed society.
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Edition: Picador USA ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador USA
Date Published: 11/2000
ISBN-13:9780312261818ISBN:0312261810
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 322 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Description: Fair. 0312263449 READABLE CONDITION ALL PAGES INTACT, COVERS HAVE SOME WEAR. HAS LIGHT WATER DAMAGE. NO WRITINGS INSIDE. (STOCK#: NOENN-3D1) read more
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Edition: First edition. Picador USA ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador USA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312261818ISBN:0312261810
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. stated 1st Amer. edition hardcover, endpaper corner clipped, otherwise, as new, no remainder mark, extremely clean! Glued binding. Paper over boards. 322 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: NY: Picador USA, 2000-First printing thus-Fine hardcover/Fine dust jacket (in mylar)-8.5" tall-as new with no markings of any kind-b&w 2-page map by Stephanie Aykroyd-319 pages. A young Canadian writer explores post-revolutionary Iran with her friend, Ian, posing together as a couple on their honeymoon, and finds "a country made up of welcoming, curious, warm-hearted, ambitious men and women. " ISBN 0-312-26181-0. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pan Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780330393065ISBN:0330393065
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Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
"Fascinating story of the author's travels in Iran as she poses as a new bride travelling with a gay colleague posing as her husband. She tells of her experiences as an invisible, veiled woman, and the camaraderie she builds with other women whilst the men are astonished by the actions of her 'husband' who has no qualms about doing 'women's work' or even trying on the veil! Great read, I loved it."
"An interesting travel journey across Iran, written by a young woman who pretended to be married to her male friend. Lovely to read how welcomed they were virtually everywhere they went. My one complaint is her insistence on quoting the Iranians, who showed them such hospitality, in the pigeon English they spoke to her. It makes them sound uneducated and stupid, when in reality that they encountered so many Iranians who could converse so easily in English is a testament to their education level. She certainly doesn't quote her own attempts to speak Arabic in the same manner, and she apparently was far from fluent. Still, an enlightening and warm read for the most part, full of wild woman pingpong champions and Christian pastors and American expats ensconced happily or not, and plenty of everyday citizens privately flouting their society's Islamist oppression. (The book was published in 2000.)"
"Posing as newlyweds on their honeymoon, Canadian Alison Wearing and a male friend make a five-month clockwise tour of Iran. Wearing's travelogue describes her experiences wearing the hijab and chador, but mostly her encounters with the Iranian people, recorded in their English. What I enjoyed most about the book was the vicarious experience of meeting such kind, excited, generous people, many of them random strangers inviting the foreign couple to their homes, showing them around town, or offering handfuls of food -- practicing the Persian custom of ta'arouf. However, I couldn't help but be annoyed by the author-narrator. She admittedly lost a travel companion on a previous trip because she was too absorbed in a book. She and her "husband" don't get along on the trip. It seems like she did little to no research about Iran beforehand. Thus at times I couldn't help but feel they were a couple of Westerners mooching off the generosity of strangers, who would not reciprocate the hospitality back home. Wearing also has a tendency to give her impressions in sentence fragments, a stylistic choice which doesn't suit me. But this book is still great as vicarious travel. It's not like I would be going on a honeymoon to Purdah anytime soon."
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