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Farewell Shiraz - An Iranian Memoir of Revolution and Exile (Paperback)
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Farewell Shiraz - An Iranian Memoir of Revolution and Exile (Paperback)
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In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled
Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah, which
opened a Pandora's box. Haunted by nostalgia for a bygone era, he
recalled a protected and idyllic childhood in the fabled city of
Shiraz and his coming of age during the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Back in London, he reflected on what had happened to him and his
family after their uprooting and decided to conduct his own
investigation into why he lost his country. He spent the next ten
years seeking out witnesses who would shed light on the last days
of Pahlavi rule. Among those he met were a former empress,
ex-courtiers, disaffected revolutionaries, and the bereaved
relatives of those who perished in the cataclysm. In Farewell
Shiraz, Kadivar tells the story of his family and childhood against
the tumultuous backdrop of twentieth-century Iran, from the
1905-1907 Constitutional Revolution to the fall of Mohammad Reza
Shah Pahlavi, before presenting accounts of his meetings with key
witnesses to the Shah's fall and the rise of Khomeini. Each of the
people interviewed provides a richly detailed picture of the
momentous events that took place and the human drama behind them.
Combining exquisite vignettes with rare testimonials and first-hand
interviews, Farewell Shiraz draws us into a sweeping yet often
intimate account of a vanished world and offers a compelling
investigation into a political earthquake whose reverberations
still live with us today.
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