My life as a traitor
By: Zarah Ghahramani ; with Robert Hillman
Contributors: Hillman, Robert, 1948-
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780374217303
Subjects: Ghahramani, Zarah; Students -- Iran -- Biography; Women -- Iran -- Biography; Women prisoners -- Iran -- Biography; Prisoners -- Iran -- Biography; Iran -- Politics and government -- 1997-
Genres: Biography
Description: Ghahramani, 20, an Iranian student, was swept off the streets of Tehran and taken to the notorious Evin prison, where criminals and political dissidents were held side by side in conditions of legendary brutality. Her crime, she asserts, was sliding back her headscarf to feel the sun on her hair. This led to a political activism fueled by the fearless idealism of the young. Her parents begged her to be prudent, but even they could not have imagined the horrors she faced in prison. She underwent psychological and physical torture, fighting despair by recalling her idyllic childhood in an affectionate family that prized tolerance and freedom of thought. After a show trial, Ghahramani was driven deep into the desert outside Tehran, uncertain if she was to be executed or freed. There she was abandoned to begin the long walk back.--From publisher description