عنوان

Things I've been silent about :memories of a prodigal daughter /Azar Nafisi

9780812973907 (pbk.)

0812973909 (pbk.)

9781588367495 (ebook)

لاتين

a-ir---

Things I've been silent about :memories of a prodigal daughter /Azar Nafisi

Random House trade pbk. ed.

New York :

Random House Trade Paperbacks,

2010.

xxi, 341 p. :ill., ports. ;21 cm.

مرجع به حساب نمي آيد

pt. 1. Family fictions -- Saifi -- Rotten genes -- Learning to lie -- Coffee hour -- Family ties -- The holy man -- A death in the family -- pt. 2. Lessons and learning -- Leaving home -- Rudabeh's story -- At Scotforth House -- Politics and intrigue -- Mayor of Tehran -- Rehearsal for a revolution -- pt. 3. My fathers' jail -- A common criminal -- The prison diaries -- A career woman -- A suitable match -- Women like that! -- Married life -- pt. 4. Revolts and revolution -- A happy family -- Demonstrations -- Revolution -- The other other woman -- When home is not home anymore -- Reading and resistance -- Broken dreams -- Father's departure -- The goddess of bad news -- Facing the world -- The last dance -- The perils of love -- Moments in 20th-century Iranian history.

Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives readers a stunning personal story of growing up in a family in Iran, moving memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and difficult mother, against the background of Iran during a time of revolution and change.

English teachers--Iran

Women--Iran

Mothers and daughters--Iran.

Iran--History--Social aspects.

مولف

Nafisi, Azar.