The Saffron Kitchen

Name: The Saffron Kitchen
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Yasmin Crowther
ISBN: 9781429586795

Author: Yasmin Crowther

Narrator: Mehr Mansuri, Ariana Fraval

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 12/28/2006

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Cultural Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Unabridged CDs - 8 CDs, 9 hours

A passionate and timely debut novel about mothers and daughters, roots and exile, from the remote mountains and riotous streets of Iran to the rain-soaked suburbs of London.

About The Author

Yasmin Crowther is an Iranian-English sustainability consultant and author. She provides counsel to high-profile clients—Microsoft, Shell, and BP, to name a few—on corporate responsibility, sustainable development, and brand strategy. The Saffron Kitchen is her debut novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tea on May 06, 2013

Lepa knjiga... dobra priča... debitantski roman... Dobar prevod... :)......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on May 16, 2018

2.5 stars As Sara is sitting down with Maryam, her mother and Saeed, her mother's nephew, she does not yet that this day will end in tragedy. After hearing harsh words from Maryam, Saeed bolts from the table and heads for the bridge. Sara chases after him and successfully holds him back but not befor......more

Goodreads review by La Crosse County Library on May 12, 2022

Review originally published April 2009 Yasmin Crowther’s first novel, The Saffron Kitchen, is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, past and present, and roots and exile in the mountains of Iran and the London suburbs. Maryam Mazer has a comfortable London home, a loving, mild English husband......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on July 27, 2012

After a terrible accident causes Sara to lose her baby, an accident she blames her mother Maryam for, Maryam in her grief and guilt leaves England for her home country of Iran, and the village of Mazareh where she was once, as a girl, the happiest. But the past cannot be outrun, and Sara is left str......more

Goodreads review by Alex on June 12, 2012

I am currently reading The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther. I picked this up on Saturday in a charity shop, browsing absent-mindedly through the shelves of discarded books, so I approached it with an open mind. It was published in 2006. I haven't finished reading it yet, but I have to say I am ab......more

Quotes

"Beautiful . . . A heartfelt story about unbreakable family bonds."
-Entertainment Weekly

"A wonderfully intricate debut novel . . . exploring the potency of heritage and the pain of exile."
-Publishers Weekly, starred review

"The Saffron Kitchen has a dreamlike quality that gradually draws in and washes over a reader."
-USA Today

"A fine novel of cultural and generational tension."
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"A moving look at the plight of the immigrant torn between two homes."
-The Christian Science Monitor

"With richly descriptive language evoking the riotous streets of Iran to the comfortable London suburbs, Crowther's well-crafted narrative will keep readers eagerly turning the pages of this poetic debut about mothers and daughters."
-PAGES

"Crowther's debut is spellbinding, and her cross-cultural perception and empathy are illuminating and affecting."
-Booklist

"An unusual and satisfying read."
-The Guardian, London

"A book about edges . . . where unconscious drives become seemingly rational decisions; and where different cultural values confront each other . . . Crowther [is] a novelist of exceptional honesty and grace."
-The Sunday Telegraph, London