At many points, sensory experiences, especially the olfactory, accompany, and sometimes relieve, the tragic unfolding of events. Iran’s rich history and culture is reflected in frequent references to art objects and poetry. The individual experiences of the family members are interwoven while each of the main characters has their own concerns and strategies for survival, there are common themes that link their experiences.
The novel is written in a realistic narrative style, mostly in the present tense. To this day, Iran remains an Islamic Republic with minimum contact with the rest of the world, whose people suffer from the ongoing sanctions imposed by Western powers. The Iranian, or Islamic, Revolution brought the Islamic fundamentalist Ayatollah Khomeini to power, ushering in a period of protests and martial law which resulted in many deaths and anti-Semitic persecution of Iranian Jews. The Septembers of Shiraz depicts the changing atmosphere and events that characterize the treatment of the wealthy class by the Revolutionary Guard after the exile of the last Persian monarch, Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, in 1979.
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