The Stationery Shop Mahjong Lover With adorable illustrations by Ekaterina

With adorable illustrations by Ekaterina Ladatko

an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic

Girls whose bodies he dumped into the lake

as well as scientific information about the animals and plants found in the precious natural habitats

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The Stationery Shop Mahjong Lover With adorable illustrations by EkaterinaFrom the award nominated author of Together Tea and The Lion Women of Tehran, a poignant, "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) and "affecting novel about first love" (Real Simple) that explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate. Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhris neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel