Jujube Blossoms is a historical novel about a tumultuous period in Persian history during the Persian Constitutional Revolution that began in 1905 and ended in 1911. Even though the ruling monarch, Mozaffareddin Shah Qajar, signed the declaration for a constitutional government in 1906 shortly before his death, his son, Mohammad Ali Shah, the crown prince who took over the Persian throne, made a serious effort, with the help of the conservative elements in the country and Russian and Persian Cossack forces, to reverse the course of events. For example, he ordered the bombarding of the Parliament with cannon fire and the harassment and execution of a number of the Constitutionalists, thus establishing what is generally referred to as the “Minor Tyranny.” Such events, and especially the character of a journalist, Mirza Jahangir Khan Shirazi, who was brutally executed in June 1908, provide the main threads that tie the chapters of this novel together. While the novel is populated with a host of historical characters, the story is told through the monologues of four fictional characters, namely Zarrintaj, Jahangir Khan’s wife; Davud, the ambitious son of a mason who struggles successfully to pull himself up from his poverty-stricken environment, at the cost of shutting his eyes to the call of his conscience; Teyfur, a peddler’s son who becomes a ruthless Cossack officer capable of every evil act; and Boris, a Russian officer from an aristocratic family, whose humane poetic nature is at war with an inhumane demon within him.