Volume 34, Number 7 · April 23, 1987
Unguided Tour
By Rosemary Dinnage
Persian Nights
by Diane Johnson
Knopf, 352 pp., $17.95
This is Diane Johnson's first novel for eight years, and it has a sort of discursive and amiable quality which is somewhat new in her work. The book's background is Iran just before the fall of the Shah; a group of Iranians and temporarily expatriate Americans are observed by a keen but affectionate eye over a period of a few weeks. There are no heroes or villains, nor—as always in her books—is there an ending in the formal sense. The story stops and the future of the central character, Chloe Fowler, is not told us.
Review, 1680 words
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