The Girl and the Pomegranate Tree

By Jamileh Garshasebi

Tala, the ten-year-old girl, lost her father to an illness. Two years later, after her mother had remarried and her stepfather refused to take custody of her, she had to leave her village at the foot of the Alborz Mountains in 1944 and go to her uncle in the Iranian capital Tehran. So she entered a new world where she met people from different parts of the country. It wasn't long before her uncle's financial problems led the Muslim girl to an Armenian-Christian family, where she had to work and live as a maid. Her time in this house was a turning point in her life. Surprisingly, a unique relationship slowly developed between the employer and her employee. Tala's wounded soul, caused by her mother's abandonment, began gradually to heal through the love she received from the Armenian woman who had no child of her own. Simultaneously, her conversations with the Armenian woman about Christianity shed light on many questions about her deceased father and God that preoccupied her mind.

This story is about the most painful grief a young girl experienced throughout her life but found tgrough love and compassion redemption.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09RG1NGWS
• ISBN13: 9798792369139
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"