The girl from the garden is a story of a wealthy persian jewish family living in iran at the beginning of the 20th century its more of an account of womens cultural plight at that time although these women were fed well and surrounded by monetary beauty their lives were ones of male servitude and oppression. 50 out of 5 stars a wonderful and poetic novel about the complications of womanhood in the opening pages of the girl from the garden parnaz writes the word paradise is a farsi word it means the space within enclosed walls a cultivated place set apart from the vast wilderness. The book focuses heavily on a semi fictional recollection of the life of a woman rakhel dada rakhel is married to a wealthy and prideful jewish man named asher in the jewish ghetto of kermanshash already we see there is one level of prison as both asher and rakhel have been pushed in a ghetto because of anti semitism. The girl from the garden a novel the girl from the garden an extraordinary new writer makes her literary debut with this suspenseful novel of desire obsession power and vulnerability in. the girl from the garden is a spectacular novel a riveting finely wrought portrait of loss longing and passion in the intimate lives of an extended family in iran foroutan is a writer of astounding talent and her tale is moving and unforgettable carolina de robertis author of the invisible mountain