Winter in Tabriz

<p><b>''Haunting, atmospheric'' Samira Ahmed</b><br><b><br>''I loved this immensely evocative novel'' Anita Sethi<br></b><br><b>Gripping and atmospheric, <i>Winter in Tabriz</i> tells the story of four young people living in 1970s Iran during the months immediately prior to the revolution, and the choices they have to make as a result of the ensuing upheaval.</b><br><br>The lives of Damian and Anna, both from Oxford University, become enmeshed with two Iranians, Arash, a poet, and his older brother Reza, a student sympathetic to the problems of the dissident writers in Iran, and a would-be photojournalist, interested in capturing the rebellion on the streets.<br><br> The novel draws on Sheila Llewellyn''s own experience of living in Tabriz, through the winter of 1978, during the last chaotic months before the revolution took hold in January 1979.<br><br> It is an expertly imagined tale of the fight for artistic freedom, young love and the legacies of conflict.</p>