![]() ![]() ![]() “I bet with those blue eyes that girl’s a Jew or a jinn’s daughter,” says one. His neighbours are generally hostile to this illegitimate child. Years later Behrouz reflects on his charge: “She had somehow acquired the ability to be two things in one.” This ambiguity continues, for as Aria grows, she wavers between opposed categories: rich and poor, educated and illiterate, orthodox Shia Muslim and something else. It’s usually a boy’s name meaning “the Iranian race”, but Behrouz intends the musical sense of the word: “little tales, cries in the night”. Carrying her home to the impoverished tenements of the southern city, Behrouz – an army driver who, as a motherless boy, pretended to be a mother himself – names her Aria. Unwanted by her father and so abandoned by her mother, in 1953 a baby girl is found under a mulberry tree in wealthy north Tehran. ![]()
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