Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir
by Marina Nemat
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Author: Marina NematEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Free Press
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Book Review: In the name of Iran
Summary: 5 Stars
I was in a book store, and saw this book on the book store's shelf. I took the book, and began to read first chapter of the book and touch my heart deeply.
There is this Iranian girl, who had nothing to do with 1979 Revolution in Iran, she found herself in a mayhem during post revolution.
According to author of the book, state police apprehended on charges of Anti-Revolution, and took her out of home in front of her parents with several of her English books.
When she was incarcerated at infamouse Evin prison, she was tortured by her interrogated by a police state/Revolutionary Guard with name of Ali. Eventually, Revolutionary Court passes a verdict to execute her. However, Ali was able to over turn death sentence by marrying her, and she was forced to merry her and to convert to Islam.
Ali was killed by couter part Revolutionary Guard, and author of the book was left all alone, at this time, and merry another person, and fled Iran, and made their way to Canada.
There are doubts and questions on horizons, also author mentioned that the event took place long time ago and is doing her best to tell the story and hopefully sometimes in future she will respond; such as, in the story, there is a person with name of Arash who is coming from Muslim conservative family, and this conservative family would not allow their son to associate with a Chritian lady because conservative people think Christian is unclean.
Also, the book illustarted that how Ali, this Revolutionary Guard was a manipluated person, and was taking advantage from this beautiful lady.
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