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264 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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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.
1979. Toloui-Semnani's parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise of those early heady days in Tehran was warped by the rise of the Islamic...
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xxi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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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.
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xiv, 297 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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English
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"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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