num_pages: 256
description: ON THE DUST JACKET: "(A) MOURNFULLY LYRICAL ACCOUNT OF AN EVANESCENT PRIVILEGED CHILDHOOD ON THE EVE OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION....IN THIS BEAUTIFULLY COMPOSED MEMOIR OF A VANISHED TIME, THE AUTHOR....RECONSTRUCTS THE IMCREASINGLY FRAUGHT LAST DAYS BEFORE HIS FAMILY WAS FORCED TO FLEE THEIR HOMELAND, FINDING REFUGE IN LONDON AND THEN AMERICA.'--KIRKUS REVIEW" INCLUDES: TABLE OF CONTENTS: PROLOGUE 1. "CORRUPTER OF THE LAND" 2. BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER 3. I RAISED THIS ONE 4. WHERE PARALLEL LINES CROSS 5. A GRAND COMEDY 6. THE WRITING ON THE WALL 7. BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE 8. THE ESCAPE 9. MY OWN REVOLUTION 10. TURNING ROTTEN 11. THE CHASE 12. YOU, TOO, MAJOR? 13. TERMINAL EXAM 14. NO GENERALS LEFT 15. DECLARATION EPILOGUE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS "ABOUT THE AUTHOR"
language: English
title: We Heard the Heavens Then: A Memoir of Iran
publisher: Free Press