Prisoner of Tehran Prisoner of Tehran

Prisoner of Tehran

A Memoir

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2007
May 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Free Press
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
743.2
KB

Customer Reviews

KurosakiXTeru ,

Beautifully written

One of the best non-fictions I've ever read. So beautifully written. there are many things to learn from this book, notably it really makes you realize the temporariness of this worldly life and how things can change drastically overnight and we may have to leave everything we once held dear to us behind. After reading this book I really have lost materialistic love for the worldly life (honestly I've been trying to do that for years). Especially if you're a Muslim, you'll certainly lose your love for this dunya if you read it attentively and with an open mind. Also, the Muslims in Iran are Shiite, not sunnis, so their practices and behaviors are NOT the teachings of Nabee Muhammad SAW, so at many places in the books, author mentioned Shiite beliefs and practices, please do NOT mix Islam and Shiitism, they're two complete different things. Enjoy the book! You're on your way to have more love for the hereafter and less love for the dunya Inshaallah!

Sir Rami #21 ,

Borimg

Not even sure if this happened or not 😂 98% of Iranians are in favor of the government according to UN statistics, so this is like reading how a Satanist feels about the church.

mynameisslim ,

Touched my heart

Very well written book.

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