book info: on sale: now copy from: public library pages: 348 review written: 21.12.17 originally published: 2009 edition read: Penguin NAL 2009 title: Rooftops of Tehran author: Mahbod Seraji In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice... my thoughts: This book was first published in 2009 and I remember adding it to my list around that time but never actually reading it since I preferred checking out library books to ...
Hi guys! I really wish I could do a giveaway about any other day, but since I can't, I save them for important things... such as finding an awesome new social media, in which I'd love to connect to you guys!
So, this is a giveaway for that!
The giveaway will run for three weeks, and at the end of these three weeks a winner will be chosen and will get the chance to get a book of his choice from the Book Depository.
Some simple rules:
- The giveaway is open internationally, as long as the Book Depository ships to you.
- Once the winner is chosen, they'll have 48 hours to reply. In case there's no response, there will be another winner chosen,
- No cheating! I do check, and in past giveaways I had to disqualify people because of that, which wasn't fun.
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