a Persian encounter with the West
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Guppy, Shusha
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- FR 9 GUP 2007
- Thesaurus
- musici, schrijvers, journalisten, vluchtelingen, Iraans, Iran, Frankrijk, 1950-1959, 20e eeuw, autobiografie
- Description
- At the age of 17, the author left Iran and her family to study at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she met amongst others the dramatist Samuel Beckett, the musician Sydney Bechet, and writer Albert Camus and was encouraged to write and record her first songs by Jacques Prévert. Simultaneously a vivid portrait of 1950s Paris.