A woman's struggle for self-realization in contemporary Iran, a novel with the clarity and spare sensuousness of Persian poetry or miniature painting.--Ruth Prawer Jhabvala When Minou Hakini marries a man of her own choosing--an intellectual and a radical--and moves to Abadan, a thriving oil town near the Iraqi border, she imagines her life will be adventurous and liberating. Before long, however, she becomes aware of her husband's suspicious...