ROSE PETALS AND TEA LEAVES, roses of the Alhambra and other stories is an openhearted and heartwarming book about roses, love, loss, grief, history, religion and faith against the background of beautiful places like Paris, Seville, Cordoba and Granada. It includes the poems the "Roses of the Alhambra" and "Girl in the White Dress", published for the first time, as well as some beautiful pictures of the roses of the Alhambra. Most stories in this book were first published in ROSE PETALS AND TE...

Barbara Bahtiar was born in 1963 in Alkmaar (Holland) as the eldest of three sisters. Her youngest sister died shortly before her first birthday, so grief has been part of her life from the beginning.

As a child, she used to read a lot of books, especially fairy tales about foreign countries. She travelled to imaginary beautiful places which comforted her in her loss. Besides this, she developed the gift of writing, first in her diaries, later as an intuitive psychologist by writing meditatio...

DE ROZEN VAN HET ALHAMBRA, een reis door rozentuinen en theetuinen is een openhartig en hartverwarmend boek over rozen, rozentuinen, theeplantages, liefde, rouw, verlies, geschiedenis, religie en geloof tegen de achtergrond van wonderschone plaatsen zoals Parijs, Sevilla, Córdoba en Granada. In Indonesië worden de theeplantages Gambung en Malabar beschreven, alsmede ons koloniale verleden. In India wordt Darjeeling theeplantage met op de achtergrond de Himalaya verbeeld.

Barbara Bahtiar is ...

DE ROZEN VAN HET ALHAMBRA, een reis door rozentuinen en theetuinen is een openhartig en hartverwarmend boek over rozen, rozentuinen, theeplantages, liefde, rouw, verlies, geschiedenis, religie en geloof tegen de achtergrond van wonderschone plaatsen zoals Parijs, Sevilla, Córdoba en Granada. In Indonesië worden de theeplantages Gambung en Malabar beschreven, alsmede ons koloniale verleden. In India wordt Darjeeling theeplantage met op de achtergrond de Himalaya verbeeld.

Barbara Bahtiar is ...

ROSE PETALS AND TEA LEAVES, roses of the Alhambra and other stories is an openhearted and heartwarming book about beautiful places inside our heart. It is a book about roses, love, grief, loss, history, religion and faith against the background of beautiful places like Paris, Seville, Cordoba and Granada. It includes the poems the "Roses of the Alhambra" and "Girl in the White Dress", published for the first time, as well as some beautiful pictures of the roses of the Alhambra. Most stories i...