Prisoner of Tehran

A Memoir

Hardcover, 320 pages

English language

Published May 1, 2007 by Free Press.

ISBN:
978-1-4165-3742-7
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OCLC Number:
71779094

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What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life?

In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution.

In January 1982, Marina Nemat, then just sixteen years old, was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for political crimes. Until then, her life in Tehran had centered around school, summer parties at the lake, and her crush on Andre, the young man she had met at church. But when math and history were subordinated to the study of the Koran and political propaganda, Marina protested. Her teacher replied, "If you don't like it, leave." She did, and, to her surprise, other students followed.

Soon she was arrested with hundreds of other youths who had dared to speak out, and they were …

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Subjects

  • Iran - History
  • Women In Islam
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Biography / Autobiography
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Ethnic Cultures - General
  • Women
  • Biographies & Memoirs
  • Biography & Autobiography / General
  • Personal Memoirs
  • 1965-
  • Biography
  • Iran
  • Nemat, Marina,
  • Political prisoners
  • Women political prisoners