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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives readers a stunning personal story of growing up in a family in Iran, moving memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and difficult mother, against the background of Iran during a time of revolution and change.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers explores, reconciles and embraces the story of her parents, untangling sixty years of Iran-American relations, and discussing the unforeseen costs of righteous activism on generations.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionaries--most of them poor, uneducated, and radicalized--seized jobs, housing, and positions of power, transforming Iranian society practically overnight. But this socioeconomic revolution had an unintended effect. As Fathi shows, the forces unleashed in 1979 inadvertently created a robust Iranian middle class,...
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