Persian Mirrors
Subtitle: The Elusive Face of Iran
Publisher: Free Press
Published: October 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780684862903
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Social life and customs; Iran - History; Social Situations And Conditions; Current Affairs; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Iran; Middle East - Iran; Current Events / International; International; 1979-1997; 1997-; Politics and government
First sentence: I HAVE NEVER LIKED flying into Iran in the middle of the night.
Description: "Like the mirror mosaics found in Iran's royal palaces and religious shrines, there is more to the whole of the country than the fragments revealed to outsiders. Persian Mirrors captures this elusive Iran. Sciolino paints in astonishing detail and rich color the surprising inner life of this country, where a great battle is raging, not for control over territory but for the soul of the nation."--BOOK JACKET.