![]() ![]() In the presentation of real historical events, many names and locations are altered, so that the novel does not pretend to be an accurate description of the historical situation. ![]() Kader Abdolah was born and grew up in a similar house in that city. Most of the plot takes place in a large (36-room) house attached to the Friday Mosque in Senejan, three hours by train from Qom, a fictionalized version of Senjan, now a district of Arak, Iran. bearing a 'flying carpet' element of fantasy" that is countered by the horrifying events that the protagonists face as the revolution progresses. The book follows the life of an Iranian family from 1969 on through the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the installment of the Khomeini government, and ends after Khomeini's death. ![]()
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