Honeymoon in Tehran [electronic resource] : Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
Moaveni, Azadeh2009
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BONUS: This edition contains a Honeymoon in Tehran discussion guide.Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West but whose economic grievances and nationalist spirit find an outlet in Ahmadinejad’s strident pronouncements. And then the unexpected happens: Azadeh falls in love with a young Iranian man and decides to get married and start a family in Tehran. Suddenly, she finds herself navigating an altogether different side of Iranian life. As women are arrested for “immodest dress” and the authorities unleash a campaign of intimidation against journalists, Azadeh is forced to make the hard decision that her family’s future lies outside Iran. Powerful and poignant, Honeymoon in Tehran is the harrowing story of a young woman’s tenuous life in a country she thought she could change.
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Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2009
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9781588367778
Language:
English
BRN:
2981181