The last dream

"THE LAST DREAM is a novel by Ruhangiz Sharifian who has devoted much of her literary output to the effects of immigration on the psyche of Iranian immigrants to Europe, North America, Australia, and other parts of the world. This novel is a story of the consequences of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran and the subsequent Iran-Iraq War, the longest war in the twentieth century, with its tremendous destructive results on the lives of virtually all Iranians. In the wake of that revolution and during that war, initially, thousands and eventually millions of Iranians fled the country, often leaving behind their kith and kin and all they possessed without knowing where they would find refuge away from all the mayhem and destruction. The narrator/protagonist of THE LAST DREAM, of course, does not tell us directly that her escape from Iran was the consequence of the revolution and the war, and instead she states a different tragic event as the cause of her flight from her beloved country. Readers of this novel, however, in particular Iranian readers, would identify the protagonist's reason for her flight and experiencing several years of danger and hardship before she arrives at her destination to be none other than the political and social devastation of her hearth and home"--