![]() ![]() ![]() Without giving away too much, her decision shows the extremes people can be pushed to reach. When someone close to Zari is targeted by the SAVAK, she reacts dramatically. Before, this tension had been lurking behind the main story line, foreshadowing future conflict. This lightness is violently disrupted by the SAVAK, the secret police. Their experiences transcend all cultures are charming, silly, and often awkward. Pasha and Ahmed are constantly joking and teasing each other as they pine after their summer crushes and fill their neighborhood with their shenanigans. ![]() Pasha spends his summer with his best friend Ahmed and his neighbor Zari. Seraji fills the novel with a stark contrast between Pasha’s life as a typical teenager and the brutality and danger that accompanied life under the Shah. This book follows Pasha Shahed, a young man living in Tehran in 1973 during the summer of his seventeenth year. I finally finished a book I’ve been reading called Rooftops of Tehran written by Mahbod Seraji. ![]()
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