Once Upon A Time in Persia
An introspective and entrancing fairytale, this spectacular debut from Iranian-Italian author Sahar Doustar asks us to consider our place in the grand beauty of the wider world.
Once upon a time in Persia, there lived a girl who learned to recognise her reflection, not in a mirror, but in the shape of the stars and the earth around her.
On her wedding day, she sees herself in a mirror for the first time and does not recognise herself. Heartbroken, she runs away, mistakenly believing another bride has taken her place. Her love desperately follows her, trying to persuade her that the reflection she saw was in fact herself. Protesting, the woman must explain to her love that her shape cannot be contained so neatly, for she is the shape of water in the lake, of the sun when it rises and sets, and the moon when full and at crescent.
Once Upon a Time in Persia promises to entrance readers with its painstakingly detailed illustrations inspired by the rich vivacity of Persian illuminated manuscripts, and prompts them to celebrate their place in the grand beauty of the wider world.
Sahar Doustar was born in Tehran in 1985. She studied at the University of Science and Technology of Iran where she earned a degree in architecture and engineering. She also has a master’s degree in architecture at Politecnico di Milano. She is currently attending her two-year specialization in graphic design for illustration at ISIA in Urbino. Once Upon a Time in Persia is her first book as an author.
Source: https://www.abramsbooks.com/contributor/sahar-doustar_50897598/
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Daniela Tieni was born in Rome in 1982. She graduated in Scenography at Rome University of Fine Arts and subsequently earned a master degree in Art Therapy. She is currently working as a freelance illustrator for Italian magazines and foreign publishers.
Source: https://www.danielatieni.it/about-me/
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