![]() ![]() For weeks, Roya tries desperately to contact him, but her efforts are fruitless. ![]() ![]() Their romance blossoms, and the little stationery shop remains their favorite place in all of Tehran.Ī few short months later, on the eve of their marriage, Roya agrees to meet Bahman at the town square when violence erupts-a result of the coup d'etat that forever changes their country's future. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer-handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumi's poetry-and she loses her heart at once. Fakhri's neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel-colored ink. 'A beautifully immersive tale, THE STATIONERY SHOP brings to life a lost and complex world and the captivating characters who once called it home.' - Jasmin Darznik, New York Times bestselling author of THE GOOD DAUGHTER and SONG OF A CAPTIVE BIRD. Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. My Review: The Stationery Shop is a historical fiction novel set in both Iran and the United States that tells the story of star-crossed lovers, Roya and Bahman.In a time of political upheaval, Roya finds solace in the local stationery (and book) shop, where she meets a young, ambitious Bahman and they fall in love. ![]()
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