The Stationery Shop Of Tehran

*** If you read The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul and enjoyed The Beekeeper of Aleppo, you will love The Stationery Shop of Tehran ***

1953, Tehran. In a small shop in a country on the brink of unrest, two people meet for the very first time.

Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the stationery shop run by Mr Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick wads of writing paper, also carries translations of literature from all over the world. Bahman, with his burning passion for justice, is like no one else she has ever met.

But all around them, as their relationship blossoms, life in Tehran is changing.

Suddenly, shockingly, violence erupts: a coup d'etat that forever changes their country's future, as well as their own.

Marjan Kamali's beautiful novel explores themes of love and loss, and delivers an unforgettable ending.

?An enchanting romance?
MY WEEKLY

?Simultaneously briskly paced and deeply moving, this will appeal to fans of Khaled Hosseini and should find a wide audience?
BOOKLIST

?Evocative, devastating, and hauntingly beautiful? This book broke my heart again and again?
Whitney Scharer, author of THE AGE OF LIGHT

?What a pleasure ? a novel that is all at once masterfully plotted, beautifully written, and populated by characters who are arresting, lovable and so real?
Elinor Lipman, author of TURPENTINE LANE

?A beautiful and sensitive novel that I loved from the first page?
Alyson Richman, international bestselling author of THE LOST WIFE

?A beautifully immersive tale ? brings to life a lost and complex world and the captivating characters who once called it home?
Jasmin Darznik, New York Times bestselling author of THE GOOD DAUGHTER and SONG OF A CAPTIVE BIRD

?A sweeping romantic tale of thwarted love?
KIRKUS REVIEWS

?The unfurling stories? will stun readers? For those who enjoy getting caught up in romance while discovering unfamiliar history of another country?
LIBRARY JOURNAL

?Grab your tissues'
BOSTON MAGAZINE

?A tender story of enduring love.?
MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

?I! Am! Obsessed! With! This! Book!?
COSMOPOLITAN.COM

Marjan Kamali is the award-winning author of The Stationery Shop (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster), a national bestseller, and Together Tea (EccoBooks/HarperCollins), a Massachusetts Book Award finalist. She is a 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. Kamali’s novels are published in translation in more than 20 languages and The Stationery Shop was awarded the Prix Attitude in France. Her essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Literary Hub, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley, an MBA from Columbia University, and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from New York University. Born in Turkey to Iranian parents, Kamali spent her childhood in Turkey, Iran, Germany, Kenya, and the U.S.

Visit the author at marjankamali.com, on instagram at @marjankamali7, on facebook at www.facebook.com/MarjanKamaliAuthor or on twitter at @MarjanKamali.