The blindfold horse: Memories of a Persian childhood

Biographies & Memoirs

Guppy, Shusha

Leaders & Notable People

Heinemann

The author recounts her experiences leaving Iran and her family at age seventeen, to start a new life in Paris as a singer and actress

A Girl in Paris

Historical

William Heinemann, Ltd.

Looking Back: A Panoramic View of a Literary Age by the Grandes Dames of European Letters

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Simon Schuster Ltd

At the age of 17, Shusha Guppy left Iran and her family to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. Diving into the unknown--a world of unimagined freedoms and unexplored horizons--Shusha immersed herself in the vibrant artistic life of Paris' Left Bank, where she met Samuel Beckett, Sydney Bechet, and Albert Camus and was encouraged to write and record her first songs by Jacques Prévert. As richly embroidered and lyrical as the Persian poetry and music that was so much a part of her heritage, Shusha Guppy's sparkling memoir, the sequel to her acclaimed first memoir The Blindfold Horse, is simultaneously a vivid portrait of 1950s Paris, an astute depiction of the confrontation between East and West, and a moving account of the pain of exile.

Community & Culture

The author tells how, at the age of 17, she left the security of her family in Persia for the Paris of the 1950s - a Paris in political and intellectual ferment. Discovered by Jacques Prevert, she became a singer and actress and encountered many of the famous denizens of "la vie de boheme".

Reference & Collections

Minerva

The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood

History

Middle East

Beacon Press

"Guppy's memoir of life in Iran before the Ayatollahs is exquisite. It conveys a sense of the country and its customs, which reveal better than most documents, the nature of the crisis which Iran is still enduring." -William Shawcross, Sunday Times (London)

Beacon Pr

I have nothing but praise for Shusha Guppy’s excellent book on the Levant… Her insights into the Near East… Her facility with history, art, religions and poetry of those ancient regions… Her traveller’s fascination… These, and many other delights, are presented to us with a captivating informality. – Patrick Leigh Fermor Of previous works by the author: “ The Blindfold Horse is a deeply moving book, evoking a whole civilization which was shaken to dust by the 1979 revolution.” – Anthony Smith, The Times “Looking Back is a feast. A galaxy of remarkable ladies, rendered by the remarkable Shusha Guppy.” – Edna O’Brien

Three Journeys in the Levant

Travel

Asia

Starhaven

Gives ten portraits of the grandes dames of British letters, some of the finest novelists, essayists and biographers of the 20th century - women like Rosamond Lehmann, Juliette Huxley, Lady Diana Cooper and Molly Keane. These discussions are drawn from the interview series of "The Paris Review".

UNKNO

At the age of 17, Shusha Guppy left Iran and her family to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. Diving into the unknown--a world of unimagined freedoms and unexplored horizons--Shusha immersed herself in the vibrant artistic life of Paris' Left Bank, where she met Samuel Beckett, Sydney Bechet, and Albert Camus and was encouraged to write and record her first songs by Jacques Prévert. As richly embroidered and lyrical as the Persian poetry and music that was so much a part of her heritage, Shusha Guppy's sparkling memoir, the sequel to her acclaimed first memoir The Blindfold Horse, is simultaneously a vivid portrait of 1950s Paris, an astute depiction of the confrontation between East and West, and a moving account of the pain of exile.

A Girl in Paris: A Persian Encounter with the West (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)

Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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