Summary

Part Two of this novel brings readers all the way back to the 1960s, when Zod is a young and hopeful young man who is then dutifully bound back to Iran. The section opens with 21-year-old Zod in Paris. He slowly finds his way into a happy life there but is yanked out of France after his older brother dies in a car accident. Zod receives a telegraph about Davoud and knows he must leave his studies and his life in Paris behind. Zod arrives back at Café Leila to find grieving parents and an angry younger brother. He is asked to consider marrying Davoud’s fiancé and, upon his first meeting with her, wholeheartedly agrees to the match. The two spend time together and are wed in a small ceremony in July followed by a sweetly awkward honeymoon for the two young...