The Fourth Wife of Aliyar Bey

The Fourth Wife of Aliyar Bey is an personal account of the life of a glamorous expat woman, the daughter of a high-ranking Cossack in the Czar's army who grew up in Russian emigré Paris. She meets her second husband-to-be, drives with him from France to Iran, getting caught up in the chic city social and fashion life prior to the revolution. Her husband Aliyar Bey has fought and been wounded in the French Foreign Legion, and is also close enough to the late Shah Reza Pahlavi to play a shadowy role in his regime which is never clarified. Lives woven through with high-living, lies and deception. It is an intertwined narrative of three women who are drawn into the writing of the book in their own ways. Try this book - it's a curious visit of the previous generation who were caught up in history and played their individual strange roles. Iran has its own shadowed history during the World Wars, and this book sketches (lest we forget) how the British were non grata and the Americans welcomed during the earlier oil years.