In The House Of My Bibi Growing Up In Revolutionary Iran
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers; Brand: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780897335676
Description: "This is the powerful memoir of a girlhood spent during the upheaval of the Iranian Revolution. The author chronicles her early childhood with her Bibi (grandmother) as well as her imprisonment at the age of eighteen on trumped-up political charges. During her brutal incarceration in the women's cell block of the Adelabad Prison, in the southern Iran city of Shiraz, she was tortured and made to live in harsh, over-crowded conditions. Her brother, Mohammed, twenty-four, was on death row for his political views. The Ayatollah Khomeini's secret police had executed tens of thousands of students. Nastaran was torn between the traditional upbringing of a girl her age and the call of the modern world. Bibi mesmerized her granddaughter with countlesss stories, traditional prayers and simple, yet profound wisdom gleaned from a difficult life"--P. [4] of cover.