This image, titled ‘Guardian of the Revolution in Iran,’ was taken in 1979
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It is the first novel by Iranian author Nazanine Hozar. Portrait of the Islamic mutiny and the end of the dreams of a generation
Many will remember beautiful and sad green eyes that went around the world in a famous cover of ‘National Geographic’. They belonged to a teenage Afghan girl staring in shock at a cruel, not-too-distant future, into which she would probably be banned from looking.
A girl stigmatized from birth for her blue eyes, cursed eyes that bring bad luck according to popular beliefs, little Aria, from the excellent first novel ‘The Story of Aria’ by the Iranian writer Nazanine Hozar, is abandoned when only is a baby in a dark alley in a poor neighborhood in Tehran for her young mother who cannot support her.
