A Mirror Garden: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307278784)

Both a love story and a celebration of the warmth and elegance of Iranian culture, A Mirror Garden is a genuine fairy tale of an exuberant heroine who has never needed rescuing.

"Captivating.... Farmanfarmaian's sumptuously detailed recollections are a rare, insidery look at two lost worlds."
--Vogue

In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar and a nanny might spin stories at her pillow until her eyes fell shut, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was born. From the enchanted basement storeroom where she played as a girl to the penthouse high above New York City where she would someday live, this is the delightful and inspiring story of her life as an artist, a wife and mother, a collector, and an Iranian. Here we see a mischievous girl become a spirited woman who defies tradition.

Author: Monir Farmanfarmaian, Zara Houshmand
ISBN-10: 0307278786
ISBN-13: 9780307278784
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/12/2008
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.28w x 0.67d