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In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs - A Memoir of Iran (Paperback)
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In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs - A Memoir of Iran (Paperback)
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Loot Price R239
Discovery Miles 2 390
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A superb, authoritatively written insider's account of Iran, one of
the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the
world. Few historians and journalists writing in English have been
able to meaningfully examine post-revolutionary Iranian life. Years
after his death, the shadow of Ayatollah Khomeini still looms over
Shi'ite Islam and Iranian politics, the state of the nation fought
over by conservatives and radicals. They are contending for the
soul of a revolutionary Islamic government that terrified the
Western establishment and took them to leadership of the Islamic
world. But times have changed. Khomeini's death and the
deficiencies of his successor, the intolerance and corruption that
has made the regime increasingly authoritarian and cynical,
frustration at Iran's economic isolation and the revolution's
failure to deliver the just realm it promised has transformed the
spirit of the country. In this superbly crafted and deeply
thoughtful book Christopher de Bellaigue, who is married to an
Iranian and has lived there for many years, gives us the voices and
memories of this 'worn-out generation': be they traders or
soldiers, film-makers or clerics, writers or taxi-drivers,
gangsters or reformists. These are voices that are never heard, but
whose lives and concerns are forging the future of one of the most
secretive, misunderstood countries in the world. The result is a
subtle yet intense revelation of the hearts and minds of the
Iranian people.
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