“The Persians” Sanam Mahloudji (2025) Review | Dynamics of the women

★★★★★ The dynamics of the 3 generations of these women, these proud, bold, beautiful, lovable women. They all want to live their lives fully.

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The Persians 
Sanam Mahloudji, 2025
384 pages
Read in 2016.02
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I've set a theme for this month which is women, and what a perfect start.

A noble, or ex-noble Valiat family, a family that produced a national hero,.
The story is about their women who left for America, and those who stayed in Iran after the revolution.
It definitely reminds you of Persepolis, but this one has even more incendiaries. 
The dynamics of the 3 generations of these women, these proud, bold, beautiful, lovable women.

By following the perspectives different women, it shows you the very different lives they've led, how the women in Iran really lived behind the veils, against the money-making shallow lives in America. 
But it's not only the countries that determine their lives, like Elizabeth being a woman in Iran in the 1940s is different from being one during the 80s, like Niaz.

But one thing is common between these women across 3 generations, they all want to live their lives fully.
They want to love freely, they want to discard freely, and they want to embrace each other despite their regrets, grudges, and lies.

Afterall, as Shirin the entrepreneur says, America is younger than their favourite jewellery, so of course their lives are extravagant. 
Just that their extravagance is not shallow.
 

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The Persians: A Novel