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Jennifer Klinec went to Iran to learn about Persian food and ended up falling in love. But the only way they could be together was with an archaic marriage contract Sat 11 Jul 2015 00.59 EDT Last. Listen to The Temporary Bride Audiobook by Jennifer Klinec, narrated by Laurence Bouvard. Jennifer Klinec is the author of The Temporary Bride (3.59 avg rating, 637 ratings, 156 reviews, published 2014) and Tymczasowa zona (0.0 avg rating, 0 r.
Jennifer Klinec’s memoir, The Temporary Bride, is a treat for the senses. It’s a wonderful piece of writing which throws open the door to a much misunderstood culture, and its attitude towards women in particular.Klinec’s life began in Ontario with an unconventional upbringing, mainly due to her parents’ having “lost their taste for hands-on parenting.” Klinec and her sister took full advantage of the resulting freedom. Thankfully, mature beyond her years Klinec admits, “by the age of ten I possessed a sense of independence that astonished my friends’ mothers.” The seeds were sown for a thirst for adventure.After years of running a Time Out recommended cooking school from her London apartment, she suffered from wanderlust and a dead-end relationship.
The solution? Klinec packed up and headed to Iran to “untangle” herself with the intention of searching for “the best, most beautiful parts of Iran.”Klinec’s journey to Iran was spurred on by her love of food, and her desire to discover that enticing link between food and culture. Whilst her descriptions may not sit comfortably with staunch vegetarians, she does have the uncanny ability to make some quite unusual offerings (including tripe, tongue and brains) sound surprisingly appetising, especially when they come “sprinkled with cinnamon and lemon juice.” You’ll certainly be left Googling Iranian rice recipes.The true gift of Klinec’s memoir emerges from her ability to prise open the door to a culture few of us have truly experienced. As a woman who falls in love with a young Iranian, Klinec comes up against many barriers, unfamiliar cultural views and values. The huge risks taken by Klinec and her partner, Vahid to spend small amounts of time together, create a fascinating and unnerving read.The intimate narrative voice has a honesty to it which is more than addictive. Klinec's confusion as she tries to make sense of the unexpected emotional journey she has found herself on is acutely captured as we are whisked off with her in a new environment, new rules and new emotions.The intimate narrative voice has a honesty to it which is more than addictive.
Klinec’s confusion as she tries to make sense of the unexpected emotional journey she has found herself on is acutely captured as we are whisked off with her in a new environment, new rules and new emotions.At times The Temporary Bride feels like Iranian equivalent of Joanne Harris’, with its evocative descriptions of food running parallel with a personal story of great intrigue. Her narrative evolves with a calm, laid-back tone which reflects an intriguing aspect of the culture she has become immersed in, whilst also jarring sharply against the tension and passion as Klinec and Vahid seek to find a path for their relationship without breaking the law. It is this aspect which really drives you through her writing, in addition to feeling truly immersed in the sights and smells of Iranian culture. Read more related posts.
After a busy couple of work months over the summer which saw my Kindle starting to get dusty, the last few months of train and plane journeys have seen me get well and truly back into my reading groove. So I’m back with my fourth selection of inspiring and interesting travel-related books I’ve discovered recently. This edition features a mixture of travel memoirs and historical dramas, with a definite foodie theme emerging and a list of exotic locations including Sri Lanka, Morocco and Iran.
Hopefully you’ll find some travel reading inspiration among them – and please do share some of your favourites too so I can add them to my reading list for next time.Read more. Iranian mosque at sunset – photo credit Always Shooting on The Temporary Bride (Jennifer Klinec)is a fascinating glimpse into a country I didn’t know much about – Iran. Canadian Jennifer leaves her corporate job to set up a cookery school from her London flat, travelling to discover the culinary secrets of different cultures (bizarrely I did one of her cookery classes in London years ago). The book follows her trip to Iran, where she meets Vahid, who takes her on a culinary tour of his city while his mother teaches her about Persian food.It starts focused on food, but turns into an unlikely love story between Jennifer and Vahid. She’s older, Western and independent, he’s inexperienced and a bit awkward, but an attraction grows between them.
The food descriptions will have your mouth watering, but it’s the insight into life in Iran that’s most interesting, from what life is like for women in the country to the struggles of keeping a relationship secret when you could be arrested just for being seen together. The Saffron Trail (Rosanna Ley)Another book guaranteed to make you hungry is, set in one of my favourite food destinations – Morocco. This time the drama is fictional, and it follows the story of Nell who comes from a family of saffron farmers in Cornwall (I’d always imagined that saffron was grown somewhere exotic but turns out it really does grow in England).Struggling to get over her grief after her mum dies, Nell heads to Marrakech to take a cookery course to chase her dream of opening her own restaurant.
She meets photographer Amy out there and they become good friends as they both try to unravel their family secrets, travelling between Marrakech. The plot hinges on a pretty whopping coincidence, but if you can get over that it’s a great story. There’s lots of detailed description that took me right back to my trip to Morocco, dusty streets, chaotic souks, fragrant spice stalls and all. Fragrant food in Morocco – this is a sea bass and fennel tagine How Not to Travel the World (Lauren Juliff)I’ve read Lauren’s blog, for years, so was looking forward to her travel memoir,. With the subtitle ‘Adventures of a Disaster-Prone Backpacker’, you know it’s not going to be the usual story of fabulous experiences in exotic locations. Leaving the UK with an anxiety problem, broken heart and no life experience, Lauren headed off on a solo RTW trip, hoping it would transform her into a confident backpacker.Instead she ended up facing disaster after disaster, from being sat next to a dead body for six hours to getting caught in a tsunami. Having had my own RTW trip I could definitely empathise.
But the story of how she went from panic attacks and constant anxiety to pushing out of her comfort zone and falling in love with both travel and a fellow blogger is inspiring. Travel might not be all glamour but even the messy bits can be life-changing.
Hokkaido Highway Blues (Will Ferguson)After spending a couple of days in Tokyo on a stopover years ago, I’ve been longing to get back to Japan, and after reading I was ready to book a flight. The book is the real-life story of a Canadian writer’s 1800-mile journey up the west coast of Japan following the cherry blossom front. He hitchhikes all the way – despite practically everyone who stops for him saying that Japanese people don’t stop for hitchhikers.With each driver’s story you get a different insight into Japanese life. Will lived in the country for years so could speak the language and get deeper into Japanese culture and history than most visitors, and you can tell he has a lot of love for the country without it being too fawning. The book is a mixture of funny and sad, with a big dose of sarcasm and self-depreciating humour but also some interesting observations about loneliness, cultural differences and being an outsider. Bright lights of Tokyo – photo credit Moyan Brenn on The Tea Planter’s Wife (Dinah Jefferies)Written by an author from near me in Gloucestershire, takes you back in time to 1920s Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was then. It’s the story of 19-year-old English woman Gwen who arrives fresh off the boat from England to join her new husband on his tea plantation.
It’s a completely alien world for her, from the climate to the way of life with its huge contrast between the lavish colonial lifestyle and the tough conditions for local tea pickers.There are lots of interesting characters and the descriptions really bring the lush landscape of the tea plantations to life. On the surface it’s a story of love and family secrets, after Gwen gives birth and has to make a terrible decision. But underneath there’s a lot of well-researched detail about what life was like in 1920s Ceylon, a time of major change with a simmering undercurrent of racism and political unrest beneath a veneer of colonial respectability.
The Lavender Keeper (Fiona McIntosh)My final book is another historical story with plenty of drama,. It’s set in Nazi-occupied France in the 1940s and starts off among the lavender fields of Provence.
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Luc is a lavender farmer adopted by a Jewish French family after his German parents were killed. When Nazi collaborators drag his family from their farm he becomes a Resistance fighter.There he meets Lisette, originally from France but now living in England and working as a British spy. She’s on her way to Paris on a mission to seduce a high-ranking German officer. There’s a love-triangle story undercurrent as Lisette ends up torn between Luc and the German Colonel. But it’s also an interesting look at the work of the French Resistance and with some likable German characters it’s a twist on the usual good vs evil story.