A Mirror Garden
Biography & Memoir, Artists, Architects & Photographers, Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, History, Middle East
| Author: | Monir Farmanfarmaian, Zara Houshmand | ISBN: | 9780307266972 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | June 12, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Anchor | Language: | English |
| Author: | Monir Farmanfarmaian, Zara Houshmand |
| ISBN: | 9780307266972 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | June 12, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Anchor |
| Language: | English |
In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar and a nanny might spin stories at her pillow until her eyes fell shut, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was born. From the enchanted basement storeroom where she played as a girl to the penthouse high above New York City where she would someday live, this is the delightful and inspiring story of her life as an artist, a wife and mother, a collector, and an Iranian. Here we see a mischievous girl become a spirited woman who defies tradition. Both a love story and a celebration of the warmth and elegance of Iranian culture, A Mirror Garden is a genuine fairy tale of an exuberant heroine who has never needed rescuing.
In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar and a nanny might spin stories at her pillow until her eyes fell shut, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was born. From the enchanted basement storeroom where she played as a girl to the penthouse high above New York City where she would someday live, this is the delightful and inspiring story of her life as an artist, a wife and mother, a collector, and an Iranian. Here we see a mischievous girl become a spirited woman who defies tradition. Both a love story and a celebration of the warmth and elegance of Iranian culture, A Mirror Garden is a genuine fairy tale of an exuberant heroine who has never needed rescuing.
