A Mirror Garden: A Memoir (Paperback)

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A Mirror Garden: A Memoir (Paperback)

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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.

“Captivating.... Farmanfarmaian's sumptuously detailed recollections are a rare, insidery look at two lost worlds.”
Vogue


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.
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was born in 1924. She now lives and works in New York.

Zara Houshmand is an Iranian American writer and theater artist. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Product Details ISBN: 9780307278784
ISBN-10: 0307278786
Publisher: Anchor
Publication Date: August 12th, 2008
Pages: 336
Language: English
“Captivating. . . . Farmanfarmaian's sumptuously detailed recollections are a rare, insidery look at two lost worlds.”
Vogue

A Mirror Garden introduces the captivating story of a unique artist. Monir's art is beguiling, and so is the story of how she came to be a creator and collector of beautiful things.”
—Her Majesty Queen Noor

“[Farmanfarmaian's] graceful memoir maps an intrepid trajectory.”
The New Yorker

“Delightful. . . . Atimeless and very timely memoir of home and self-identity.”
The San Francisco Chronicle