A 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.
Their romance blossoms, and the little stationery shop remains their favorite place in all of Tehran. 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. Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. A poignant, heartfelt new novel by the award-nominated author of Together Tea -extolled by the Wall Street Journal as a "moving tale of lost love" and by Shelf Awareness as "a powerful, heartbreaking story"-explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate.
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