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A Mirror Garden: A Memoir

In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar and a nanny might spin stories at her pillow until her eyes fell shut, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was born. From the enchanted basement storeroom where she played as a girl to the penthouse high above New York City where she would someday live, this is the delightful and inspiring story of her life as an artist, a wife and mother, a collector, and an Iranian. Here we see a mischievous girl become a spirited woman who defies tradition. Both a love story and a celebration of the warmth and elegance of Iranian culture, A Mirror Garden is a genuine fairy tale of an exuberant heroine who has never needed rescuing.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 322
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-307-26613-2
  • EAN
  • 9780307266132
  • Genres
  • memoir, iran, art, history, biography
  • Release date
  • 2007