THE CYPRESS TREE

Book ID/图书代码： 05380006B02487

English Summary/英文概要： Kamin Mohammadi left Iran in 1979, aged nine. As an adult she finally returned to rediscover her country, culture and family and since then she has been returning regularly, re-establishing her relationship with the place and its people, and teaching herself to become truly bi-cultural, both British and Iranian. THE CYPRESS TREE is her story of exile and return, and an investigation into modern Iran with all its glories and trials, its wonders and contradictions.
Growing up in the UK, Kamin embraced all that her new life had to offer, from her Sussex boarding school to the murky nightclubs of London and a career forged in the magazine offices of Soho. But she never forgot her Iranian childhood, and 18 years on – filled with both longing for her homeland and fear of what she would find there – Kamin returned to Iran.
Her family is spread across many social strata – from the urban sophisticates in Tehran to Kurdish mountain villagers, so she has been able to investigate many faces of this intriguing nation. What she found there a decade ago made her fall in love, with the grace of the culture, the elaborate courtesies, the beauty of the language and the poetry in the Iranian soul. But this is not just a love story: THE CYPRESS TREE is the story of how modern Iran has come into being – a family history that is also the country’s recent history.
Kamin offers a personal and anecdotal account of three generations of her characterful and colourful extended family; and through their experiences she has produced an insightful analysis of the recent social and political history of Iran. Kamin details the way that, after the revolution, women’s rights were slowly chipped away, particularly through the actions of the Basij or Moral Police. She discusses the changes that occurred during the bloody, eight-year Iran-Iraq war which followed, the slow moves made towards social and political freedom after it had finished, and the recent re-tightening of controls under Ahmadinejad.
Iran is still a country caught between its ancient traditions and modern desires, a repressive religious regime and a young population clamouring for freedom. In particular, claims Mohammadi, it is the women of Iran – smart, highly educated and privately sharp-tongued – who are incubating future revolution and who will one day step forward and demand a new social order.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1979年時，年僅9歲的卡民.穆罕默迪離開了故鄉伊朗。
時隔多年，長大成人的她終於又再次踏上了這片故土，面對自己的祖國、悠久的文化還有久違的家人，自此她展開了一場回歸之旅；卡民開始頻繁地回國，努力嘗試重建與這裏的紐帶，擁有英國及伊朗雙重國籍的她不斷向自己同時灌輸著這兩種文化。而「針葉樹」一書所講述的，正是有關於卡民逃亡與回歸的漫長歷程，同時它還是一次對於當代伊朗的深入探討，這個國家的光榮與蒙塵、偉大與矛盾無一不被囊括進了本書之中。
生於伊朗卻長於英國，從蘇塞克斯的寄宿制學校到夜幕下斑斕的倫敦夜生活，卡民早已接受並適應了西方式的生活。但與此同時，對於那段在伊朗所度過的童年時光，卡民於內心深處所深藏著的記憶卻從未被真正湮滅，整整十八個春秋之後 - 夾雜著對於故國的鄉愁以及未知的忐忑 - 卡民決心重返祖國。
在卡民的家族之中，其成員的社會層次相當複雜 - 有的生活在繁華的首都德黑蘭，有的則居住在庫爾德遙遠的山村，這令其擁有了足以完整一窺伊朗社會全貌的良機。「針葉樹」記載了伊朗如何向現代化進行轉變的歷程 - 透過一段家族史，向我們很好詮釋了這個國度的滄桑巨變。 (ANDY)

Awards/获奖情况：“The heartfelt tale of a family shaped by the tumultuous drama of Twentieth-century Iran, The Cypress Tree is a profoundly affecting meditation on the shattering experience of exile.” - Justin Marozzi

“The Cypress Tree is vivid testimony to Kamin Mohammadi’s ebullient, irrepressible family whose courage to endure carries them through revolution, exile and return to triumphant survival… A memoir to inspire.” - Aminatta Forna, author of The Memory of Love

“Kamin’s father courted her mother with a Mohammadi rose each day; a slow, elegant, romantic ritual combining his name, his land, and his love. His daughter does the same, wooing us, page by page, until we too become besotted.” - Justine Hardy author of The Wonder House

About the Author/作者介绍： Kamin Mohammadi is a journalist and travel writer whose work has appeared in the Guardian, the Financial Times, Conde Nast Traveller, Vogue and Harper’s & Queen, among others. She co-authored the Lonely Planet Guide to Iran, and regularly appears as a commentator on BBC Radio Four. As an Iranian who grew up largely in the UK but spends part of every year in Iran, Kamin is uniquely placed to commentate on life in the Islamic Republic.

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