

Children of the Jacaranda Tree
Author: Sahar Delijani
Narrator: Mozhan Marno
Unabridged: 8 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 06/18/2013
Categories: Fiction, Cultural Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Sahar Delijani
Narrator: Mozhan Marno
Unabridged: 8 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 06/18/2013
Categories: Fiction, Cultural Fiction, Literary Fiction
Sahar Delijani was born in Tehran’s Evin Prison in 1983 and grew up in California, where she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She makes her home with her husband in Turin, Italy. Children of the Jacaranda Tree is her first novel; it has been translated into twenty-seven languages and published in more than seventy-five countries. Find out more at SaharDelijani.com/en.
Children of the Jacaranda Tree is a novel, a work of fiction, but it is based on the experiences of its author, Sahar Delijani, and her parents, who were imprisoned in Evin, a prison in Tehran, Iran, in the 80s. Thankfully, all survived the experience. Ms. Delijani was born in Evin in 1983, and, fro......more
The novel is set in a period when the triumph of the Iranian revolution of 1979 took away freedom rather than broaden it and liberals had to continue protesting, this time against the authoritative conservatism of the Islamic regime. To suppress this rebellion, clerics and militia were roped in from......more
On the eve of the 2013 presidential election in Iran, Shahar Delijani invites us to look at what past elections have meant for three generations rooted in post-revolutionary Tehran from 1983 to present day. This is a novel that reads like a memoir, tracing the experiences and thoughts of Iran’s dise......more
book based from the early days of the Islamic revolution Iran to modern day of the lifes of those children and parents who were in jail and the aftermath of living with the pain and how lifes change.......more
I wanted this to be so much better than it turned out. It's still a good book - I'll stand by the three stars, but it doesn't live up to its potential, or to its virtuoso beginning. Delijani is obviously passionate about Iran, and that comes through on every page, but she often loses the thread of t......more