✔ 2 friends growing up in different environment in Tehran ✔ Heart breaking lives of the 2 girls and their shattered dreams ✔ Powerful story about friendship and women who don't bow down
★★★★★ Iran, beautiful culture and customs, particularly important is how the women in Iran have been enduring and fighting. They don't give up. Powerful story about friendship and not giving up.
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For all the lion women fighting and enduring
Another book on Iranian women, after The Persians. And this one is straightforward as a story, yet powerful. It's a story of two girls who met at the age of seven in 1950s and are bonded throughout their lives. One from bourgeois family another from poverty, but they both pledge to study hard to become lion women to serve their country. But, everything is changed while they were at Tehran University.
Power of friendship, power of traditions, of courage, of mothers, and of women. Shir zan, woman with courage of a lion. Homa is determined to raise her voice even if that leads to her dangers. She was certainly not alone. In Iran, these brave women have been fighting for decades, fighting and enduring, because they have hope their beloved country.
Ellie's relationship with her mother is also interesting. The tradition can form your actions, and suffering can affect your way of thinking. But it's not about judging the traditional way of life, it's about the freedom to choose, even if that comes with cost.
The last 2 books I read on Iran are about how the women are powerful, they won't bow down, despite the incredibly harsh and brutal environment. Fictions are not lies, these are the stories of real women and men.
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