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Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran

Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran

Housden, Roger

Paperback

Travel WritingGeneral Middle East

ISBN10: 0307587746
ISBN13: 9780307587749
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: Nov 13 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.04
Language: English


When Roger Housden decided to travel to Iran and finally see the subject of his youthful fascination, he was in his sixties. By then, he thought he had seen the world. He was wrong.

It was a quest that changed him forever. In Iran, Housden met with artists, writers, film makers and religious scholars who embody the long Iranian tradition of humanism, and shared with him their belief in scholarship and artistry. From the bustle of modern Tehran to the paradise gardens of Shiraz to the spectacular mosques and ancient palaces of Isfahan, Housden met Iranians who were warm, welcoming, generous, intellectually curious, and altogether alive with their love for one another, and for the faith and tradition that holds them together.

Saved by Beauty weaves a richly textured story of many threads. It is a deeply poetic and perceptive appreciation of a culture that has endured for over three thousand years, while it also portrays the creative and spiritual cultures within contemporary Iran. While there, Roger Housden was brought face to face with the reality that beauty and truth, deceit and violence, are inextricably mingled in the affairs of human life, and was forever altered by it.

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