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With an autumn day in London, the dark secrets and troubled past of Maryam Mazar surface violently with tragic consequences for her pregnant daughter, Sara, and her newly orphaned nephew, Saeed. Racked with guilt, Maryam is compelled to leave the comfort of her suburban home and mild English husband to come back to Mazareh, the remote Iranian village where her story began. There she must face her past and the memories of the life she was forced to leave behind when her father disowned her for a sin she did not commit, in the times when she was young, headstrong and beautiful. Back in England, Sara takes care of Saeed and her distraught father as she tries to comprehend what has happened. Together they begin to unearth Maryam's story from other memories, fragments of conversation, photographs and a few lines of poetry. In her quest to piece their life back together, Sara follows her mother to Iran, to find the roots of her unhappiness also to try to bring her home. Definately not the terraced streets of London, among the list of snow-capped mountains and wind-swept plains which have haunted her mother's dreams for half of a century, Sara finally learns the terrible price Maryam once had to cover her freedom, and of the love she left behind. A richly poetic and haunting narrative, The Saffron Kitchen tells of betrayal and retribution, of secrets that can lie undisturbed for decades without losing their power to harm, of the pain of exile and the difficult joy of homecoming.
