The Hexagonal Garden — Farnoosh Moshiri

The Hexagonal Garden, at the foot of the Alborz Mountain in Iran is the scene of multiple love stories, murder, and suicide. The time is the early 1950s, and the dark shadow of the American coup d'état falls on the incidents of the novel. The beloved is Pari-Sima (fairy face) who is a candle around which her admirers fly and burn to ashes. In this novel of love and politics, two narratives, the story of the present, and the accounts of the past, run parallel to each other and end unexpectedly.