Lunch
Jon Halliday, 2 June 1983
In the Service of the Peacock Throne: The Diaries of the Shah’s Last Ambassador to London
by Parviz Radji.
Hamish Hamilton, 343 pp., £12.50, April 1983,0 241 10960 4 Show More
by Parviz Radji.
Hamish Hamilton, 343 pp., £12.50, April 1983,
“... to go stale. The worst thing that usually looms over the soup is a missed deadline. The diaries of Parviz Radji, the Shah’s last ambassador to London, are largely about lunches and dinners, many of them spoiled by subjects weightier than missed deadlines. Abuse of civil rights, imprisonment without trial and, above all, torture ruin many a delicious ... ”
