While music student Sydney is watching her neighbor Ridge play guitar on his balcony across the courtyard, Ridge is watching Sydney’s boyfriend, Hunter, secretly make out with her best friend on her balcony. Hoover is a master at writing scenes from dual perspectives. Sydney and Ridge make beautiful music together in a love triangle written by Hoover ( Losing Hope, 2013, etc.), with a link to a digital soundtrack by American Idol contestant Griffin Peterson. Sixty years later, Bahman’s confession will finally expose the secrets that cast shadows over the lovers so long ago.Ī sweeping romantic tale of thwarted love. The plan works, and the two even plan to elope, but Bahman does not show up in Sepah Square. Fakhri offers to exchange secret letters between the lovers. Although he cannot tell Roya where Bahman has gone, Mr. Roya determines to weather her future mother-in-law’s storms, but when Bahman and his family disappear, she can only turn to Mr. While Roya’s family welcomes Bahman-although Zari warns Roya that his heart cannot be trusted-Bahman’s emotionally volatile mother refuses to accept the engagement, because she has already chosen Shahla, the daughter of a man closely allied with the shah, for her son.

Tuesday after Tuesday, the couple falls more deeply in love, and Bahman soon proposes marriage to Roya. Kamali ( Together Tea, 2013) sets Roya and Bahman’s love against the tumultuous days of Mohammad Mossadegh’s rise and fall as prime minister of Iran, infusing their affair with political passion and an increasingly frantic sense of the shortness of time.

There she first sees Bahman Aslan, a breathless young man already well-known as a political activist. Fakhri’s stationery and book store every Tuesday afternoon. While he hoped she might become a chemist, Roya loved escaping into novels, which sent her to Mr.

But will he break her heart again?īack in 1953, she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl, raised in a progressive home in Tehran, where her father encouraged Roya and her sister, Zari, to take advantage of the recent reforms that allowed women to go to university. Sixty years after her first love failed to meet her in a market square, Roya Khanom Archer finally has the chance to see him.

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