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A Memoir
Free Press
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Featuring: Marina Nemat
320 pages
ISBN: 1416537422
EAN: 9781416537427
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Non-Fiction Memoir
What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life? In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written
memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the
heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran
during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic
Revolution. In January 1982, Marina Nemat, then just sixteen years old,
was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for political
crimes. Until then, her life in Tehran had centered around
school, summer parties at the lake, and her crush on Andre,
the young man she had met at church. But when math and
history were subordinated to the study of the Koran and
political propaganda, Marina protested. Her teacher replied,
"If you don't like it, leave." She did, and, to her
surprise, other students followed. Soon she was arrested with hundreds of other youths who had
dared to speak out, and they were taken to the notorious
Evin prison in Tehran. Two guards interrogated her. One beat
her into unconsciousness; the other, Ali, fell in love with her. Sentenced to death for refusing to give up the names of her
friends, she was minutes from being executed when Ali, using
his family connections to Ayatollah Khomeini, plucked her
from the firing squad and had her sentence reduced to life
in prison. But he exacted a shocking price for saving her
life -- with a dizzying combination of terror and
tenderness, he asked her to marry him and abandon her
Christian faith for Islam. If she didn't, he would see to it
that her family was harmed. She spent the next two years as
a prisoner of the state, and of the man who held her life,
and her family's lives, in his hands. Lyrical, passionate, and suffused throughout with grace and
sensitivity, Marina Nemat's memoir is like no other. Her
search for emotional redemption envelops her jailers, her
husband and his family, and the country of her birth -- each
of whom she grants the greatest gift of all: forgiveness.
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