My life as a traitor : an Iranian memoir by Ghahramani, Zarah

My life as a traitor : an Iranian memoir
by Ghahramani, Zarah

(#00477G9)

Paperback Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2008, p2009
Description: 242 pages; 21 cm
Dewey: 365; Audience: Adult

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Product Overview
From Follett

Zarah Ghahramani recollects her childhood in Iran, being raised by a family who encouraged her creativity in a country were women were oppressed; and recalls her experiences in Evin Prison, a jail in Tehran where she was subjected to physical and psychological torture for showing her hair in public.

From the Publisher

At the age of twenty, Zarah Ghahramani was swept off the streets of Tehran and taken to the notorious Evin prison, where criminals and political dissidents were held side by side in conditions of legendary brutality. In this richly textured memoir, she tells the terrifying, inspiring story of her time in prison.My Life as a Traitorcelebrates a triumph of the individual over the state and is an affecting addition to the literature of struggle and dissent.

Product Details
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication Date: January 6, 2009
  • Format: Paperback
  • Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
  • Dewey: 365
  • Classifications: Autobiography, Nonfiction
  • Description: 242 pages ; 21 cm
  • Tracings: Hillman, Robert, 1948-
  • ISBN-10: 0-374-53164-1
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53164-5
  • Follett Number: 00477G9
  • Audience: Adult