The Saffron Kitchen Audiobook

" It was interesting and I liked it well enough, but the flow was a little off for me and parts felt overly dramatic. "

" I read this in one day...couldn't put it down. "

" MOving book very sad --what a sick society in Iran "

" Just started this for our book club. More info. to come. "

" Een mooi omschreven verhaal over het verschil in culturen waardoor je soms gedwongen bepaalde keuzes maakt om te overleven.... Bracht veel herinneringen boven, maar ok hulp met verwerken van mijn verleden :) Een aanrader! "

" This is a story which starts in Iran with a young woman in love challenging her father and the local customs and having to be exiled to England and start a life all over again there. To find resolution of her past she returns to Iran. Then her daughter travels from England and follow her mother to her mother's birthplace to better understand her mother's unhappiness and the bittersweet resolution. A good read. "

" I wasn't thrilled by this book. The best way to describe it is to just say, "Meh." The characters were flat, the plot really built to nothing special, and even though I enjoy descriptive writing, this was similar to eating too much dessert. The descriptive nature of the text made me feel too full. "

" Clever and beguiling, focusing on the lives people have that we don't know about. Still resonating in my mind a few weeks later. "

" I would not recommend this book to my friends. It was very boring at times. "

" very good book about a person bridging two cultures over 30years. A young woman forced to leave her familiy in Iran and start over again in England....the consequences scar her family for over 30 years. "

" Quite disappointed in this book. The idea for the story is very good, but it left me cold. I really didnt like the mother character and felt no empathy for her. "

" The style is emminent but is not enough to keep the readers interest "

" Good read, not fabulous but very interesting overall. "

" I liked the Iran parts- because I've never been there. I really never could get into the characters, or believe them fully. "

" Enjoyed it but felt like I needed more closure at the end. "

" This book reminded me a little of books by Khaled Hossein. The issues spanned generations and changed families and people for life. I didn't feel the closeness to the characters in this book like I did in Kite Runner or Thousand Splendid Suns though. However, I really enjoyed reading it. "

" A beautiful, involving story with delicate prose and great images. Definitely lacked a little subtlety with some of the symbolisms and some of the characters were one-dimensional and hard to believe. "

" This was a very interesting book. I have found that reading about other women's lives in other countries has been interesting and enlightening. "

" Only about 30 pages into it, but enjoying it so far. "

" I don't want my daughter to look back in her childhood and remembers her mother as a depressed women who still tries to overcome the changes of being a first generation immigrant. That part of the book defiantly touched me so I do recommend this book to all mothers. "

" A little mellodramatic. Trauma from childhood is a big deal but I felt that the mother's reaction wasn't real or something about it was off. "

" Overall I enjoyed the book, but I found the ending to be stale and predictable. "

" Slow and intense the book gets you involved with the two main characters in the story. "

" From London to the remote mountains of Iran, a story of a family living between two cultures, dark secrets and reconciling how to know your own mind, when it is not driven by fear or guilt or obligation. "

" Wonderful story and so well written! This was a first book by this author....hope there are many more to come!!! "

" Not enough back story. I love to read about other cultures, but this story of parent / child conflict affecting two generations could have taken place in any culture. "

" A beautiful, involving story with delicate prose and great images. Definitely lacked a little subtlety with some of the symbolisms and some of the characters were one-dimensional and hard to believe. "

" Beautiful story telling. A human story that inspires and touches the reader. This is a story i would recommend to any woman. "

" When I first started, this book pulled me right in and i enjoyed as it went along but then the end...i was very disappointed of how the story ended. I didn't like it one bit, so it wasn't 4 stars as it could have been. "

" This is a beautiful story of family relationships, cultural classes, forgiveness and moving on. "

" Really enjoyed this book. It is the story of a relationship between a mother and a daughter. The mother was born in Iran and the daughter was born in America and the book explores the complicated relationship that resulted due to the very different cultures. "

" A one-time read only. Very high on emotions and set during the Iran-Iraq war period. "

" It was okay. I guess I kept waiting for something else to happen. "

" Getting past the tragedy in the first few pages was the hardest part. From there, the story blooms into one of love and self-discovery and sacrifice. It caught me by surprise and I couldn't put it down. "

" Very interesting book about a girl in Iran before the revolution and then the dichotomy of life as she moves to England. "

" What a beautifully written book. I listened to it on audio, so maybe the narrators' voices affected my opinion, but I really enjoyed the story. Haunting, so descriptive, and made me feel as though I was in Iran, in England, etc. right along with the main characters. "

" Just couldn't get into this enough to get past the first 1/3 of the book. The characters seemed interesting enough, but I couldn't get past the writing style enough to actually like them. A story is nothing without characters. "