Dimensions
128 x 198 x 13mm
Iran Revisited.
From the Lonely Planet Journeys collections of travel literature.
Ana Briongos first travelled to Iran in the 1960s. She returned in the early 1970s to study Persian at the University of Tehran and has continued to return to this country of contradictions ever since. But 'Black on Black' is not so much her own story as that of her friends and acquaintances. Ultimately, all her tales are about coming to terms with the consequences of the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Ana describes the everyday life of the people she meets and visits. These quiet, domestic moments build, like the pieces of mosaic into an intricate portrait of a country where things are not always as they appear. With a disarming gentleness, Ana reveals a country far more complex - both now and in its "liberal" days under the Shah - than television soundbites have led us to believe.
