Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey

The beautifully written travel memoir of a Western womans journey in Iran.. With a love of travel Alison Wearing invites us to journey with her to Iran--a country that few Westerners have a chance to see. Traveling with a male friend in the guise of a couple on their honeymoon Wearing set out on her own at every available opportunity. She went looking for what lay beneath the medias representation of Iran and found a country made up of welcoming curious warmhearted ambitious men and women. . With humor and compassion Wearing gives Iranians the chance to wander beyond headlines and stereotypes and in doing so reveals the poetry of their lives--those whose lives extend beyond Western news stories of kidnapping terrorism veiled women and Islamic fundamentalism.. With this engrossing account Wearing casts a sympathetic eye on the real people of Iran so often invisible to the West.--Publishers Weekly