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Caspian Rain.(Brief article)(Book review)
In pre-revolutionary Tehran, a Jewish girl from the slums finds her marriage prospects dimmed by the disgraceful behavior of her siblings, among them a delusional opera singer manque, an aged (i.e., nearing thirty) spinster, and a convert to Islam (who "couldn't tough it out as a Jew"). But, inspired by literature, "the domain of unemployed men and loose women," she takes charge of her destiny and rushes into a doomed union with an icy aristocrat. At ...
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