What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life?
In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir,
"Prisoner of Tehran," Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story
of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of
Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution.
In January 1982, Marina Nemat, then just sixteen years old, was
arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for political crimes.
Until then, her life in Tehran had centered around school, summer
parties at the lake, and her crush on Andre, the young man she had
met at church. But when math and history were subordinated to the
study of the Koran and political propaganda, Marina protested. Her
teacher replied, "If you don't like it, leave." She did, and, to
her surprise, other students followed.
Soon she was arrested with hundreds of other youths who had
dared to speak out, and they were taken to the notorious Evin
prison in Tehran. Two guards interrogated her. One beat her into
unconsciousness; the other, Ali, fell in love with her.
Sentenced to death for refusing to give up the names of her
friends, she was minutes from being executed when Ali, using his
family connections to Ayatollah Khomeini, plucked her from the
firing squad and had her sentence reduced to life in prison. But he
exacted a shocking price for saving her life -- with a dizzying
combination of terror and tenderness, he asked her to marry him and
abandon her Christian faith for Islam. If she didn't, he would see
to it that her family was harmed. She spent the next two years as a
prisoner of the state, and of the man who held her life, and her
family's lives, in his hands.
Lyrical, passionate, and suffused throughout with grace and
sensitivity, Marina Nemat's memoir is like no other. Her search for
emotional redemption envelops her jailers, her husband and his
family, and the country of her birth -- each of whom she grants the
greatest gift of all: forgiveness.
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