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A Mirror Garden. Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian and Zara Houshmand. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 322 pages. $25.95 cloth.
At a time when most Iranian women were living through the contradictions of World War II-occupied Iran in the late 1940s, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, an aspiring artist from Qazvin, was making her way to America in what seems an almost accidental, if not charmed, set of circumstances. The daughter of a man who had been steeped in the tradition of Islamic thought and scholarship but who had disavowed Islam at the sudden and unexpected death of his mother, she was given innumerable and unusual opportunities for a woman of her generation. While most of her peers were either considering suitors or allowed to attend only religious schools, Shahroudy was attending the Zoroastrian school and later the Fine Arts College of Tehran. There, under the influence of Madame Aminfar, a French woman married to an Iranian, she got the...
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