Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
In Azar Nafisi's personal story of growing up in Iran, she shares her memories of a life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution.
Things I've Been Silent About transports us to a world that is at once enchanting and threatening; it is a tale that mixes family feuds, politics and literature and holds our interest from the first to the last page * Financial Times *
A beautiful and sensitive book.. [Nafisi's] belief in the power of culture to transform lives and societies is inspiring * The Times *
A companion memoir to the bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran, this is Azar Nafisi's more personal account of growing up in Iran...an intriguing memoir * Metro *
Nafisi's account is rarely shrill or self pitying, preferring to let her stories tell themselves -- Aamer Hussein * The Independent *
This powerful memoir, from the author of the global hit Reading Lolita in Tehran, is a bewitching story ... Set against the background of change before the Islamic Revolution, it is a complex, provocative story of family life, lies and loves * Good Housekeeping *
A beautiful and sensitive book.. [Nafisi's] belief in the power of culture to transform lives and societies is inspiring * The Times *
A companion memoir to the bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran, this is Azar Nafisi's more personal account of growing up in Iran...an intriguing memoir * Metro *
Nafisi's account is rarely shrill or self pitying, preferring to let her stories tell themselves -- Aamer Hussein * The Independent *
This powerful memoir, from the author of the global hit Reading Lolita in Tehran, is a bewitching story ... Set against the background of change before the Islamic Revolution, it is a complex, provocative story of family life, lies and loves * Good Housekeeping *
Azar Nafisi is a visiting professor and the director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University. In 1981 she was expelled from the University of Tehran after refusing to wear the veil. In 1994 she won a teaching fellowship from Oxford University, and in 1997 she and her family left Iran for America. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic and has appeared on countless radio and television programmes. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099487128 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099487128 |
| Title | Things I've Been Silent About |
| Author | Azar Nafisi |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2010-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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