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Things I've been silent about : memories

Author: Azar Nafisi
Publisher: New York : Random House ; ©2008.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives readers a stunning personal story of growing up in a family in Iran, moving memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and difficult mother, against the background of Iran during a time of revolution and change.
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Named Person: Azar Nafisi; Azar Nafisi; Azar Nafisi
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Azar Nafisi
ISBN: 9781400063611 1400063612 9781588367495 1588367495
OCLC Number: 270775181
Description: xxi, 336 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: FAMILY FICTIONS. Saifi -- Rotten genes -- Learning to lie -- Coffee hour -- Family ties -- The holy man -- A death in the family -- LESSONS AND LEARNING. Leaving home -- Rudabeh's story -- At Scotforth House -- Politics and intrigue -- Mayor of Tehran -- Rehearsal for a revolution -- MY FATHER'S JAIL. A common criminal -- The prison diaries -- A career woman -- A suitable match -- Women like that! -- Married life -- REVOLTS AND REVOLUTION. A happy family -- Demonstrations -- Revolution -- The other other woman -- When home is not home anymore -- Reading and resistance -- Broken dreams -- Father's departure -- The goddess of bad news -- Facing the world -- The last dance -- The perils of love -- Moments in 20th-century Iranian history.
Responsibility: Azar Nafisi.

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Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives readers a stunning personal story of growing up in a family in Iran, moving memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and difficult mother, against the background of Iran during a time of revolution and change.

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