Pasha and Ahmed sleep on the roof during the hot summer nights, and they begin to witness events that are at first confusing and later turn violent, as the Shah attempts to hold on to his control over Iran. Doctor is away on business and the summer progresses as Ahmed and Faheemah wish, but Pasha just falls more deeply in love with Zari and becomes more conflicted.īecause we continue to have flashbacks to the psychiatric hospital, and little by little learn who it is who is hospitalized, we know that there are dark clouds hanging over the happy teenagers who laze away their summer at Zari's house.
If Faheemah befriends Zari, then Ahmed and Pasha can join them for long afternoons in Zari's backyard.
Pasha likes and respects Doctor, so he keeps his feelings to himself as Ahmed cooks up a plan to spend time with the girl he loves, Faheemah. He has fallen in love with the girl next door, Zari, who is unfortunately already engaged to a man with the nickname Doctor. The second chapter shifts to the summer of 1973 when Pasha Shahed is seventeen years old and living with his parents in Tehran, Iran.Īn intelligent high school student, whose father has high ambitions for him and whose mother dabbles in herbal medicines, Pasha tells us about his friends, Ahmed and Iraj, his teachers and school, and his neighborhood.
R ooftops of Tehran begins with a brief chapter in the winter of 1974 in a psychiatric hospital, where an unnamed character reacts to events around him.
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