![]() ![]() Nasser Ali's music is worthless, and it doesn't bring any money in, she says repeatedly and cold-heartedly. She accuses him of showing more interest in his music and his instrument than in his duties towards his family and his domestic responsibilities. That's the day on which the famous Iranian tar virtuoso Nasser Ali has an argument with his wife which is to have major consequences. Satrapi's story begins in Tehran on an autumn day in 1958. ![]() The book isn't so much an introduction to the pleasures of Iranian cuisine as an introduction to the world of the author's uncle, Nasser Ali Khan, a man who simply couldn't live without his love for music and, more especially, without his passion for the Iranian stringed instrument, the tar. Marjane Satrapi's new book could well have had a different title. ![]()
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