Love Story
“Even so, I still want her to take the tests, to see how she does.
“If she did, I'd be even more unhappy. It's much better if you don't try.
— Can I send you a book as a present?
“You don't need my permission to send gifts to the students.
Perhaps madame would not feel so confident if she saw the list of books: one by Saul Bellow, one by Durrell , and a realistic story about miners' life in Yorkshire during the depression of the thirties. The kind of reading that parents didn't think was recommended for young Iranian girls.
More than a week has passed and the weather in Tehran has become less cold. The trees were in bloom and the garden around the school was full of new growth.
As the Muslim