Random House Trade Paperbacks
November 2014
On Sale: October 21, 2014
400 pages ISBN: 0812981804 EAN: 9780812981803 Kindle: B004J4X2XK Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
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 Iran’s
presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée,
Paola, that he’d 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 Iran’s 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: Maziar’s 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
family’s extraordinary courage in the face of repression.
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