Book description
The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a turning-point in modern history.
The destruction of the Iranian monarchy not only upset the political
order in the Middle East and brought on a quarter-century of warfare,
but introduced a new way to look at history. In Days of God James Buchan
lives each moment of the revolution through the eyes of ordinary people
as he tries to answer his own troubling question: why did his friends,
with their peculiar Iranian dreaminess and charm, act the way they did?
'Combines deft broad strokes with intricate details, shading in
apparent dry subjects with innumerable and delightful anecdotes'
James Buchan first visited Iran nearly forty years ago. A student of
Persian and Arabic, he was for many years a correspondent of the
Financial Times in the Middle East, and later in central Europe and the
US. He has written more than a dozen works of fiction and history
including a portrait of Edinburgh in the eighteenth century (CAPITAL OF
THE MIND), a biography of the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (Adam
Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty) and a philosophy of money
(Frozen Desire). His most recent book is DAYS OF GOD: THE REVOLUTION IN
IRAN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. He works a small farm in Norfolk.
