Akbar’s brother Habib is a mullah who professes the need for religious cleansing. Retired Judge Akbar and his wife Bibi own a fruit orchard and their extended family joins them for rich countryside lunches where they discuss what’s happening in their country. The story then alternates between Shazdehpoor’s life in modern day Paris and his family back in Iran in 1978-79. It’s the day of a solar eclipse and Shazdehpoor, a lonely Iranian man, remembers his life in his home country. While on the surface Rabeah Ghaffari’s To Keep the Sun Aliveis about a family amid the Iranian revolution, the novel opens in Paris in 2012.
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