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All memoirs bring days gone by in to the present, but just a few manage to light up both concurrently. French Hats in Iran, a silently insightful masterpiece of remembrance, belongs in that go for group. Heydar Radjavi's evocations of growing up in Tabriz in the 1930s and 1940s explain a traditionalist Iran grappling with modernity, a process as fraught with contradictions and tensions then as it is in Iran today. In some mini-tales, we meet a rich cast of personas: the elderly father who works in the Tabriz bazaar and works his household relating to unbending religious precepts; the resourceful mother who sees ways to enjoy such forbidden frivolities as music; the female playmate who marries at age nine; the tutor whose personal trip needs him from strictest piety to political radicalism; and so many more. Finding a course through all the complexities is Radjavi himself - a wide-eyed little youngster in some episodes, an adventurous teenager in others, and finally a young man getting ready to enter into a fast-changing world. The build is definitely light, the memories wonderfully stunning, and the main theme of stress between old and new truly ageless.
