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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
This is a book that you can completely lose yourself in. It's haunting and you can't put it down.
What an incredible story-reads like fiction. Only a 3 star due to her writing style and Christian "preaching" but her horrible journey in prison at 16 was so incredible. Makes me think a lot!
Another book that makes you realize being born in North America is winning life's lottery.
This was an incredible memoir of a very brave girl who had to make a journey that we would never want to make. I couldn't put it down and ended up finishing it in 2 days.
Baldly told, but absorbing: a true story, the account of how a teenage Iranian girl was arrested on political charges and thrown into the country's most notorious prison and sentenced to death. One of the interrogators took a liking to her and offered to marry her. She saw no other option, as there would be repercussions otherwise, so converted to Islam and went through with it. Her sentence was commuted to imprisonment, as the marriage was seen as a sign that she'd reformed.
The marriage ended abruptly when her husband was assassinated and she returned to her own family, to marry someone of her own choice, and subsequently emigrate to Canada.
This was written as a kind of catharsis and that comes across; it's fluent, but somehow lacks the kind of impact you'd expect. Still certainly worth reading, though.
The marriage ended abruptly when her husband was assassinated and she returned to her own family, to marry someone of her own choice, and subsequently emigrate to Canada.
This was written as a kind of catharsis and that comes across; it's fluent, but somehow lacks the kind of impact you'd expect. Still certainly worth reading, though.
An amazing true story of a woman's harrowing experiences during the Iranian Revolution. The author is the same age as me and while I was worrying about what to wear to dances and whether I would have time to study in between phone calls to my friends she was being held prisoner and tortured in the notorious Evin Prison. I am looking forward to reading her second book, "After Tehran" and learning about her life Canada.
Well written and griping memoir of a woman's imprisonment in Evin prison in Tehran. Read each word like I was there along with her. Her suffering was my suffering. an amazing must read.