The Central NY Chapter of the Fulbright Association hosts another "Fulbright Reads" virtual event on Wednesday, April 27 at 7PM EDT. Join author and musician Sepehr Haddad for a conversation about his book A Hundred Sweet Promises, based on the true story of his grandfather, Persian composer Nasrosoltan and Russian princess Irina Alexandrovna Romanova on the eve of WWI.
All are welcome to this free event!
Haddad’s award-winning book, A Hundred Sweet Promises’ is the tale of the author’s grandfather, Nasrosoltan, a famed composer, who on the eve of World War I travels from Persia to Russia to study classical music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with such masters as Rimsky-Korsakov. While there, Nasrosoltan falls in love with a Romanov princess, but the royalty surrounding him considers this a forbidden love. A novel based on a true story set against the backdrop of the final days of Imperial Russia.
**Winner of the 2021 American Writing Awards in Historical Fiction and recipient of the Gold Medal Award at the Historical Fiction Club, receiving the Historical Fiction Press Award’s 5-star ‘highly recommended’ rating**
Wednesday, April 27, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. EST
Register on Zoom:
https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcOmpqj8oHNbGqpX…
Purchase the book on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Sweet-Promises-Sepehr-Haddad/dp/17325943…
Hear an interview with the author on NPR:
https://www.kqed.org/news/11875401/in-a-hundred-sweet-promises-musician…
