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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. In “Land of the Turquoise Mountains: Journeys Across Iran” (2014) Cyrus Massoudi, a British-born Iranian, tries to discover his roots through a series of trips in Iran. Being a Farsi-speaker, he has a huge advantage over most other travelers, yet, he does not seem to exploit this to the full. Mr Massoudi meets lots of people, but he doesn’t really get them to talk; he just travels along with them, and lets himself be taken by the hand, whether it is to visit a kebab restaurant where they secretly drink alcohol, or one of the many tourist sites he visits. I cannot escape the impression that Mr Massoudi is just another tourist, who describes the wonders of this country – a bit from a distance. His personal quest does not develop very well, perhaps because his sometimes too blatant naivity (he expresses surprise, when a woman keeps her headscarf on inside the house; would he really not realize that she does this because he, a not-family member man, is there). Overall, a nice travel story, with some background to the sites he visits, but there are better ones (eg Jason Elliot). ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
For Cyrus Massoudi, a young British-born Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee thirty years ago was a place wholly unknown to him. Wanting to make sense of his roots and piece together the divided, divisive, and deeply contradictory puzzle that is contemporary Iran, he embarked on a series of journeys that spanned hundreds of miles and thousands of years through the many ebbs and flows of Iranian history. From the border with Turkey to that of Turkmenistan, from the Caspian basin down to the Persian Gulf, his journeys took him from the mythological first kings of Iran, to the Elamite kingdom, the eras of Cyrus and Darius, the glory of the Sasanians, the shock of the Islamic Arab conquests and the later Mongols, Safavids, and on to Khomeini, Ahmadinejad, and beyond. Rich portrayals of Sufis and ageing aristocrats, smugglers, and underground rock bands are all woven together with history, religion, and mythology to form a unique portrait of contemporary Iranian society. And, like a fragile thread running through the heart of the narrative lies Massoudi's poignant personal quest; his struggle echoing that of Iran itself, as it fights to forge a cohesive modern identity. With its tensions of young against old, reformists against reactionaries, and the computer against the Qur'an, it is a battle with global implications for a future that is poised so precariously between promise and ruin. Land of the Turquoise Mountains reveals a world beyond the propaganda-driven, media fuelled image of fractious, flag-burning fundamentalism, and provides a compelling glimpse into the heart of a deeply misunderstood nation and into what it is to seek out and discover one's heritage No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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