MM Books | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

A Tale of Three Generations of Revolutionary Iranian WomenTwo women are caught up in revolutions thirty years apart, but it is a third woman-the woman that connects them-that carries the scars of loss that time has not healed. Weaving together the past and the present, two storylines tell the life of Omid, the daughter of one revolutionary and the mother of another.Laced with the literary wisdom of Iran's great poets, the novel draws on and illuminates a Middle Eastern culture that continues to fascinate readers. Omid's Shadow, although fiction, draws on many actual events that occurred on Tehran's streets after the election in June of 2009. Like the great tragedies of literature-from Romeo and Juliet to A Doll's House to Ragtime to The Kite Runner-Omid's Shadow takes us from the public politics of the street fight to the private power of the human heart.