Title : The Best of Days - Yassaman Montazami - Book
Summary :
Karl Marx and my father had one thing in common: they never worked for a living. True revolutionaries don't work, my father used to say. This state of affairs seemed logical to him: you couldn't work for the abolition of wage labor and be an employee - it was incompatible." YM After his father's death, Yassaman Montazami took refuge in writing to try to keep the memory of this extraordinary character alive. The humor and the comical nature of the memories gradually eased the immense sorrow caused by his loss. Born prematurely, condemned and then miraculously saved, the child adored by his mother, who never refused him anything, was named Behrouz - in Persian: "the best of days" - a name predestined for a future idealist in love with justice and a clown incapable of taking life seriously. Sent to France to pursue studies he would never complete, he participated in his own way in the revolutionary events of 1979, during which Iran shifted from monarchy to the Islamic Republic, by making his Parisian apartment a refuge for Iranians in exile. Their crisscrossing between Paris and Tehran gives the author the opportunity to portray a multitude of improbable characters from the most diverse backgrounds: a colonel's wife on the run, a fanatic of Gone with the Wind, a libertine poet, mystic and banned from publication, a Maoist revolutionary imprisoned in Evin prison, and even a former business leader turned opium addict. Evoking a world that has now disappeared, this first novel is striking for its mastery and the acuity of its writing.
- EAN: 9782848051161
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