Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir by Shahrnush Parsipur

Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir

Shahrnush Parsipur with Sara Khalili (Translator)

240 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging reflective slow-paced
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A moving account of life as a political prisoner in post-revolutionary Iran from the acclaimed Iranian author of Women Without Men. Shahrnush Parsipur was a successful writer and television producer in her native Iran until the Revolution of 1979....

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