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A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Random House Trade Paperbacks
November 2014
On Sale: October 21, 2014
400 pages
ISBN: 0812981804
EAN: 9780812981803
Kindle: B004J4X2XK
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Non-Fiction Memoir
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY JON STEWART | Previously published as Then They Came for Me When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iranβs presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancΓ©e, Paola, that heβd be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three months in Iranβs most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knew only by his smell: Rosewater. For the Bahari family, wars, coups, and revolutions are not distant concepts but intimate realities they have suffered for generations: Maziarβs father was imprisoned by the shah in the 1950s, and his sister by Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s. Alone in his cell at Evin Prison, fearing the worst, Maziar draws strength from his memories of the courage of his father and sister in the face of torture, and hears their voices speaking to him across the years. He dreams of being with Paola in London, and imagines all that she and his rambunctious, resilient eighty-four-year-old mother must be doing to campaign for his release. During the worst of his encounters with Rosewater, he silently repeats the names of his loved ones, calling on their strength and love to protect him and praying he will be released in time for the birth of his first child. A riveting, heart-wrenching memoir, Rosewater offers insight into the past seventy years of regime change in Iran, as well as the future of a country where the democratic impulses of the youth continually clash with a government that becomes more totalitarian with each passing day. An intimate and fascinating account of contemporary Iran, it is also the moving and wonderfully written story of one familyβs extraordinary courage in the face of repression.
 Media BuzzDaily Show with Jon Stewart - November 13, 2014
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