From the deterioration of the chrysanthemum garden

<p>In the shadow of Iran's rising unrest Azar a young caregiver in Tehran quietly navigates a life<br>suspended between duty and yearning. Haunted by memories and burdened with unspoken dreams she longs for escape—especially to Portugal a land of imagined freedom and forgotten songs. But Azar is not bound to just one reality. In the silence of her grief she slips into alternate worlds: as the mournful voice of Amália Rodrigues Portugal’s queen of Fado and as a cloistered girl living three centuries earlier in a Lisbon trembling before its devastating quake.<br><br>Woven with eerie beauty and lyrical melancholy this haunting novel explores identity exile and the fragile line between dreams and memory. From the Deterioration of the Chrysanthemum Garden is a tale of resistance—in the face of repression in the echo of music and in the timelessness of sorrow.</p>