Pomegranate Soup, Marsha Mehran
Pomegranate Soup, Marsha Mehran
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Pomegranate Soup
A Novel

Author: Marsha Mehran

Narrator: Donia Bijan

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/14/2023


Synopsis

To the exotic Aminpour sisters, Ireland looks like a much-needed safe haven. It has been seven years since Marjan Aminpour fled Iran with her younger sisters, Bahar and Layla, and she hopes that in Ballinacroagh they might finally find a home.



The sisters set about creating a Persian oasis and soon sensuous wafts of cardamom, cinnamon, and saffron float through the streets—an exotic aroma that announces the opening of the Babylon Café. And it is an affront to the senses of Ballinacroagh's uncrowned king, Thomas McGuire. After trying to buy the old pastry shop for years and failing, Thomas is enraged to find it occupied—and by foreigners, no less.



But the mysterious, spicy fragrances work their magic on the townsfolk, and soon, business is booming. Marjan is thrilled with the demand for her red lentil soup, abgusht stew, and rosewater baklava—and with the transformation in her sisters.



The sisters find a merry band of supporters against the close-minded opposition of less welcoming villagers stuck in their ways. But the idyll is soon broken when the past rushes back to threaten the Amnipours once more, and the lives they left behind in revolution-era Iran bleed into the present.

Author Bio

Marsha Mehran (1977-2014) was born in Tehran, Iran, but left during the Revolution, at age two, with her family. She then lived in such diverse places as Buenos Aires, the United States, Australia, and Ireland. Marsha's talent and wit was evident from an early age: she became fluent in speaking Farsi, Spanish, and English at age six; she was identified as a gifted child at age eight in the USA; and she excelled at learning to play the piano, nurturing her musical talent at the Elder Conservatory of Music in Adelaide. Her first book, Pomegranate Soup, published in 2005, was translated into fifteen languages and published in more than twenty countries. The continuation, Rosewater and Soda Bread, was a hit sequel in Marsha's vision for a series of seven books. The third title, Pistachio Rain, was scheduled for publication in 2014 but disrupted by her demise in April that year. Her stand-alone book has been published in Australia and New Zealand, by Harper Collins, as The Margaret Thatcher School of Beauty and by Amazon Crossing as The Saturday Night School of Beauty. Marsha Mehran passed away in her adopted home of Ireland, in 2014 at the age of thirty-six. She leaves behind a literary legacy that will continue to thrive in her legion of fans across the globe.

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