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    <body><![CDATA[This is novel about close friendships and how love can survive all things. The setting is Tehran 1973 and 1974. The story is told from the viewpoint of an 18 year old young man, Pasha. Pasha has a best friend, Ahmed and these two have an extremely close, trusting friendship. They share everything an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69329469">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mahbod Seraji's debut novel <em>Rooftops of Tehran</em> is a beautifully crafted journey set in Tehran, Iran, during the tumultuous 1970s. Pasha Shahed is a teenage boy who in the summer before his last year of high school faces the reality of his homeland, the despair of irrevocable change, and his first lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66278767">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was really good and I liked that it mixed the story of Pasha's coming of age and falling in love with the history of Iran at the time and the beginnings of revolution and uprising. It's a little sad, but there are happy parts too. It's also a bit of a mystery that you piece together a litt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58319175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoy a good read about teen characters in another culture--this one is Iran in the 1970s. Pasha spends a lot of time on the rooftop and his world revolves around his neighborhood. He's in love with a girl who is engaged to someone else and the government won't stop interfering with eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73026810">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me teary-eyed.  It was a splendidly told tale that has elements that anyone who remembers his or her first teenage love can relate to.<br/><br/>I have read a number of books on Iran (many of them memoirs) that focus on the oppression of the Khoemeni era and what followed.  It was ey...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71179663">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found Rooftops of Tehran as I was reshelving books during my volunteer shift at our local library.  As we all know, you can't judge a book by it's cover, but I did, loved the colors and delicate floral design and took it home.  Oh, sweet little treasure that is a wonderfully engrossing read found ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70752987">more...</a>]]></body>
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