The Hexagonal Garden, at the foot of the Alborz Mountain in Iran is the scene of multiple love stories, murder, and suicide. The time is the early 1950s, and the dark shadow of the American coup d' tat falls on the incidents of the novel. The beloved is Pari-Sima (fairy face) who is a candle around whom her admirers fly and burn to ashes. In this novel of love and politics, two narratives, the story of the present, and the accounts of the past...