Both a love story and a reporter's first draft of history,
"Honeymoon in Tehran" is a stirring, trenchant, and deeply personal
chronicle of two years in the maelstrom of Iranian life.
In 2005, Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for
"Time" magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As she documents the firebrand leader's
troublesome entry onto the world stage, Moaveni richly portrays a
society too often caricatured as the heartland of militant Islam.
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 a temporary outlet in
Ahmadinejad's strident pronouncements. Mingling with underground
musicians, race car drivers, young radicals, and scholars, she
explores the cultural identity crisis and class frustration that
pits Iran's next generation against the Islamic system.
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. Preparing to be wed by a mullah,
she sits in on a government marriage prep class where young couples
are instructed to enjoy sex. She visits Tehran's bridal bazaar and
finds that the Iranian wedding has become an outrageously
lavish-though often still gender-segregated-production. When she
becomes pregnant, she must prepare to give birth in an Iranian
hospital, at the same time observing her friends' struggles with
their young children, who must learn to say one thing at home and
another at school.
Despite her busy schedule as a wife and mother, Azadeh continues to
report for "Time" on Iran's nuclear standoff with the West and
Iranians' dissatisfaction with Ahmadinejad's heavy-handed rule. But
as women are arrested on the street for "immodest dress" and the
authorities unleash a campaign of intimidation against journalists,
the country's dark side reemerges. This fundamentalist turn, along
with the chilling presence of "Mr. X," the government agent
assigned to mind her every step, forces Azadeh to make the hard
decision that her family's future lies outside Iran.
Powerful and poignant, fascinating and humorous "Honeymoon in
Tehran "is the harrowing story of a young woman's tenuous life in a
country she thought she could change.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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