Hello folks! Hope you are doing well!
Recently I completed The Stationery Shop of Tehran written by Marjan Kamali. Let me tell you, you don’t read The Stationery Shop of Tehran for the plot twists. You read it for the ache. For the way Marjan Kamali takes you by the hand and walks you through a love story that is both tender and devastating. This is not a book about fairy tales or happy endings. It’s a book about choices, about loss, misunderstandings, unexpected meets.
The story begins in 1953 Tehran, where** Roya,** a dreamy teenager with a love for literature, finds herself drawn to Mr. Fakhri’s stationery shop. And it’s here that she meets Bahman, a charming young man who shares her passion for words and ideas. Their love feels natural, like the verses of Rumi they exchange. But life has other plans.
Political turmoil, family interference, and mainly one heartbreaking misunderstanding is all it took to tear them apart. Roya moves to America, carrying the weight of what could have been. Decades later, she confronts Bahman again, but this isn’t a story about rekindling old flames
Kamali writes with an elegance that makes every sentence feel like a sigh. The hum of protests in the background, the quiet intimacy of the stationery shop, highly detailed food preperations. But what stays with you isn’t the setting—it’s the emotions. The bittersweet realization that love doesn’t always conquer all.
This is not a romance novel in the traditional sense. It’s more about how we carry our pasts with us even as we build new lives. It’s about how love can be both beautiful and painful
You won’t finish this book feeling triumphant. You’ll finish it feeling tender. The Stationery Shop of Tehran doesn’t promise answers or happy endings. What it offers instead is truth: that love is messy, memory is relentless, and healing takes time. And somehow, that truth is enough.
This is my 1st book from the author, and I cant wait more to read more of her.
Let me know what you guys think of it.
Till then goodbye🌻💗
