Prisoner of Tehran

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Prisoner of Tehran
Author : Marina Nemat
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Language : English
Release Date : 06 May 2008
ISBN : 9781416537434
Pages : 340 pages
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Follows the author's tragic childhood in 1980s Iran, which was shaped by war, the Khomeini regime, and her work as a teen anti-propaganda activist, efforts for which she was brutally beaten and sentenced to death before a guard offered to save her and protect her family if she would convert to Islam and marry him. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Prisoner of Tehran

Follows the author's tragic childhood in 1980s Iran, which was shaped by war, the Khomeini regime, and her work as a teen anti-propaganda activist, efforts for which she was brutally beaten and sentenced to death before a guard offered to save her and protect her family if she would convert

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