Entanglement, a Novel

Firoozeh Azadi is the most beautiful of Persian women, aristocratic by birth, educated in the West, now on a journey home to Tehran after years of living abroad. Her parents, loving yet bound by tradition, have something unexpected planned for her upon arrival: an engagement party with a man whom she does not know, yet must marry. She is shocked, and rebels. Events overwhelm her, all of which she records and photographs with a magical camera given to her by a lesbian friend in California. Time stalls, winding back to Paris, 1954, as we meet Marie-Claire, a woman photographer originally in possession of that magical camera. A disciple of the Illuminati desperately wants the instrument, at whatever price, and the story propels forward to the revolutionary fervor of Prague, 1968. "Entanglement" takes us on a journey of a thousand places: the enclaves of Buenos Aires, the bombed-out streets of Belfast, the old city of Tallinn, the embattled mountain terrain of Afghanistan, before landing in the White Mountains of California, not far from Yosemite, on a quest to find the oldest living tree on Earth--Methuselah--one planted by ancient native tribes, descendants of the other worldly Sky People. We enter the lives of five women, each hopelessly flirting with danger, caught up in the throes of love, desperately in search of that invincible summer Camus so poetically imagined. The stakes are high; the forces of opposition powerful and deadly. Is deliverance possible? "Entanglement," Tom Maremaa's riveting, spellbinding novel, touches the depths of passion and romance, history and obsession in ways we have not seen or felt before.