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Shusha Guppy is also a gifted story-teller.

Shusha Guppy is also a gifted story-teller. Despite this slight sour note, this book reads like the tales of a modern Scheherazade, who regales us with matchmaking bathhouse attendants and philandering mullahs, strict teachers and loving fathers, and of course, the blindfold horse treading round and round in a cloud of yellow turmeric and dreaming of paradise. Paradise is a Persian childhood as remembered by this author.

Guppy's first book, The Blindfold Horse: Memoirs of a Persian Childhood, was published in 1988. The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood, William Heinemann Ltd, 1988

Guppy's first book, The Blindfold Horse: Memoirs of a Persian Childhood, was published in 1988. It was highly praised, winning the Yorkshire Post Prize from the Royal Society of Literature, the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle. The book describes a Persia before the excesses of Shah Reza Pahlavi led to his overthrow, describing a country with an Islamic way of life without dogmatism or fanaticism. The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood, William Heinemann Ltd, 1988, ISBN 978-0-434-30850-7; I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2004, ISBN 978-1-85043-401-6.

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Guppy’s memoir of life in Iran before the Ayatollahs is exquisite. Shusha Guppy was born and brought up in Iran. It conveys a sense of the country and its customs, which reveal better than most documents, the nature of the crisis which Iran is still enduring. Stands comparison with Out of Africa. She went to Paris when she was 17 to study at the Sorbonne, and moved to London in the early 1960s.

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The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood. In this eloquent memoir, she recreates the lost world of her childhood before the oil boom and the eventual overthrow of the Shah

The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood. In this eloquent memoir, she recreates the lost world of her childhood before the oil boom and the eventual overthrow of the Shah. Her magical tales about relatives and friends, music and drama, religious holidays and celebrations are interwoven with myth and legend, poetry and anecdote and provide a rare and optimistic portrayal of Iran. This is an enlightening and moving testimony of a vanished world: a story as vibrant as Iran itself. Other Titles of Interest. Girl in Paris: A Persian Encounter with the West.

Book Description Decades before the Iranian revolution of 1979, which placed the country under a repressive religious rule, Shusha Guppy grew up in a Persia delicately balanced between traditional Islamic life and the transforming forces of westernization. In this eloquent memoir, Guppy recreates the lost world of her childhood before the oil boom and the eventual overthrow of the Shah

Decades before the Iranian revolution of 1979, which placed the country under a repressive religious rule, Shusha Guppy grew up in a Persia delicately balanced between traditional Islamic life and the transforming forces of westernization.

Decades before the Iranian revolution of 1979, which placed the country under a repressive religious rule, Shusha Guppy grew up in a Persia delicately balanced between traditional Islamic life and the transforming forces of westernization. In this eloquent memoir, Guppy recreates the lost world of her childhood before the oil boom and the eventual overthrow of the Shah

Books included "The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian childhood" - 'One of the best books of the 20th century. Stands comparison with Out of Africa

Books included "The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian childhood" - 'One of the best books of the 20th century.