First Libri GmbH First Love in Iran Paperback

Before love had language, it arrived as a glance.In Iran after the 1979 revolution, a boy sees a girl for one suspended second, and that moment becomes the first country of his imagination.From there, First Love in Iran follows the education of a heart: friendship tested by war, desire shaped by danger, family love forced to wound in order to protect, leaving Iran, marriage, fatherhood, divorce, craft, solitude, and the long peace of letting go.Bijan Farnam looks back at the people and moments that shaped his understanding of love. Some loves arrive as beauty. Some as duty. Some as hunger, home, ambition, grief, or compassion. Each leaves its mark. Each teaches him something he could not have learned any other way.Told with humor, restraint, and the clarity of someone still trying to understand his own life, this is not a guide to love. It is a memoir about the loves that make us, unmake us, and sometimes return us to ourselves.