Garden of the Brave in War: Recollections of Iran - Softcover

O'Donnell, Terence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226617645 ISBN 13: 9780226617640

Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1988

Synopsis

When Terence O'Donnell, an American who lived in Iran for fifteen years in the 1960s and 1970s, was asked what he was doing there, he replied, "The conviction of all Iranians, of most of my compatriots, and indeed of the Russians, was that I was engaged in intelligence work. I was, and what is more I filed a daily report. My employer was myself and my reports consisted of eight thousand pages of journal. This book was drawn from that material." For ten of those years, O'Donnell lived on a farm near Shiraz, in southern Iran, where he raised mainly pomegranates, but also quinces, grapes, chickens, and bees. He also made many Iranian friends. His memories of that time have yielded a masterpiece of national portraiture, wonderfully alive to the complexities of the Iranian character -- courteous, capricious, deeply religious yet also playful, generous, and poetic. A work of shimmering beauty and sensitivity, Garden of the Brave in War will deepen every reader's understanding of the often elusive country that lies behind the headlines.

About this title

From the Publisher:

New commemorative edition with an introduction by Dick Davis

About the Author:

Terence O’Donnell was born in Portland, Oregon in 1924. In addition to farming during his years in Iran, he received three Fulbright lectureships at Iranian universities. In 1972 he returned to Portland and became active in the Oregon Historical Society. He is the author of several books about Oregon, and Seven Shades of Memory, a collection of short fiction about Iran. Terence O’Donnell died in March 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0226617645
• ISBN 13: 9780226617640
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216