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"A luminous debut about a pair of star-crossed lovers in Iran during the last days of the Shah...A well-crafted portrait of human love trapped in the vortex of history."
-Kirkus"Firouz crafts dialogue that is profound at the appropriate time, while also being, as the occasion demands, witty, cynical and even self-deprecating."
-Washington Post Book World"Her admirable and smooth prose is pointed, elegant, aphoristic, and wise."
-Los Angeles Times"A powerful political novel in the tradition of V.S. Naipaul and Graham Greene...In the Walled Gardens successfully accomplishes what great literature is meant to do: capture time, place, and character; make these real as well as transcendent; and, finally elicit empathy, insight, and understanding. This is a major achievement for a debut novel, for any novel."
-Bill Robinson of MostlyFiction.com