Best memoir books from Iran

Best memoir books from Iran


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Memoir books from IranRecommended memoir books (14)

Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Iran for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep by Siba Shakib EN
Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:One woman’s harrowing story about life under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Shirin-Gol was just a young girl when her village was levelled by the Russians in 1979. When the men in her family joined the resistance, she fled with the other women and children to Kabul, and so began a life of day-to-day struggle in her war-torn country. A life that included a Pakistani refugee camp, a forced marriage to pay off her brother’s gambling debts, selling her body and begging for money to feed her growing family, an attempted suicide and an unsuccessful attempt to leave Afghanistan for Iran after the... continue
Genre nonfiction Biography Feminism Memoir
Tags: Set in Afghanistan Female author

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Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi EN
Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:From the best–selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men. As the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their secrets, their regrets and their often outrageous stories about, among other things, how to fake one’s virginity, how to escape an arranged marriag... continue
Genre nonfiction Comic Feminism Humor Memoir
Tags: Set in Iran Female author

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Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas EN
Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Finalist for the PEN/USA Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and the Audie Award in Biography/Memoir This Random House Reader’s Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner! “Remarkable . . . told with wry humor shorn of sentimentality . . . In the end, what sticks with the reader is an exuberant immigrant embrace of America.”—San Francisco Chronicle In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California... continue
Genre nonfiction Memoir
Tags: Set in United States of America Set in Iran Female author

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Laughing Without an Accent by Firoozeh Dumas EN
Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:The author continues the story of her Iranian-American family and their experiences at home and abroad, from dealing with her French husband's Christmas traditions to taking fifty-one Iranian family members on a cruise to Alaska.
Genre nonfiction Memoir
Tags: Set in United States of America Female author

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Leer Lolita en Teherán by Azar Nafisi ES
Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:Cada jueves por la mañana a lo largo de dos años, Azar Nafisi, una valiente y brillante profesora iraní, reúne clandestinamente en el salón de su casa a siete de sus almunas más aventajadas a fin de leer libros prohibidos: obras de Jane Austen, Henry James, Scott Fitzgerald y, por supuesto, de Vladamir Nabakov, el autor de Lolita. Mientras las jóvenes poco a poco se expresan a través de los libros, se dan cuenta cómo sus propias vidas se van transformando y mezclando con la trama de las obras a las que se entregan.
Genre fiction Memoir
Tags: Set in Iran Female author

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Leer Lolita en Teheran by Azar Nafisi ES
0 Ratings
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:Leer Lolita en Teherán es, en el acto y en el título, una abierta manifestación de la libertad de la imaginación frente a las prohibiciones, políticas o de cualquier índole. También podría haberse llamado Leer Gatsby, o James, o incluso Austen, que son las partes en que se divide el libro (podría agregarse a Saúl Bellow). Nafisi, es profesora de Literatura, y luego de su abandono de la Universidad, dictó durante dos años un taller para un grupo de jóvenes. El taller, y el libro dialogan con las obras li... continue
Genre nonfiction Memoir
Tags: Set in Iran Female author

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My Life as a Traitor by Zarah Ghahramani EN
Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:It was part youthful zeal and part teen crush that led Zarah Ghahramani to join a student protest movement. But dabbling in student politics was to lead to disaster when one day she was bundled into a car and taken to Tehran's most notorious prison: Evin. Far from her comfortable middle-class home, Zarah had to find refuge from her ruthless interrogators in a windowless concrete cell. Day after day she was humiliated and viciously beaten until all she wanted was simply to die, her spirit broken. In My Life as a Traitor, Zarah tells the story of her horrifying ordeal and her eventual release, a... continue
Genre nonfiction Memoir
Tags: Female author

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No Friend But the Mountains : Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani EN
Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:"Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man." -- From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait of five years of incarceration and exile. Winner of the Victoria... continue
Genre nonfiction Memoir Poetry Political
Tags: Set in Australia

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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi EN
Rating: 5 (139 votes)
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:BEST SELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. “A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances.... A stark, shocking impact.” —The New York Times: "The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years" In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regim... continue
Genre nonfiction Biography Comic Historical Memoir Political
Tags: Set in Iran Female author

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The Complete Persepolis : Volumes 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrapi EN
Rating: 4 (15 votes)
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:A MEMOIR OF GROWING UP AS A GIL IN REVOLUTIONARY IRAN, PERSEPOLISE PRIVIDES A UNIQUEGLIMPLSE INTO A NEARLY UNKNOWN AND UNREACHABLE WAY OF LIFE.
Genre nonfiction Biography Feminism Historical Memoir
Tags: Set in Austria Set in Iran Female author

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HOMECOUNTRIESBOOKS FROM IRANMEMOIR BOOKS FROM IRAN


Memoir books from IranRecommended memoir books (14)

Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Iran for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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The Evin Prison Bakers' Club by Sepideh Gholian EN
Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran 'A remarkable testimony to women’s bravery, compassion and solidarity in the harshest of conditions… Think Nigella crossed with Nelson Mandela.' SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A fighting woman cannot be imprisoned because her voice is louder than prison walls. This book is proof.' Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a tres leches cake. In Iran’s prisons, women endure horrors: they are b... continue
Genre fiction Memoir
Tags: Set in Iran Female author

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The Other Side of Silence : A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women's Movement by Mahnaz Afkhami EN
Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list. Afkhami, Iran's first minister for women's affairs, began to rebuild her life in the United States, becoming an architect of the women's movement in the Global South. Along the way, she encountered familial, cultural, political, and organizational hurdles that threatened to derail her quest to empower women and change the very structure of human relatio... continue
Genre nonfiction Memoir
Tags: Set in Iran Female author

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The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri EN
0 Ratings
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction "Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.” —The New York Times Book Review "Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those of the ‘feared swarms’ . . . Her family’s escape from Isfahan to Oklahoma, which involved waiting in Dubai and Italy, is wildly fascinating . . . Using energetic prose, Nayeri is an excellent conduit for these heart–rending stories, eschewing judgment and employing care in threading the stories in with her own . . . This is... continue
Genre nonfiction Memoir
Tags: Female author

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Until We Are Free by Shirin Ebadi EN
Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran
Description:'POWERFUL AND SOMETIMES SHOCKING ...' SUNDAY TIMES In this powerful book, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, tells of her fight for reform inside Iran, and the devastating backlash she faced after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Having fought tirelessly for democracy, equality before the law and freedom of speech, Ebadi became a global voice of inspiration. Yet, inside her own country, her life has been plagued by surveillance, intimidation and violence. Until We Are Free tells shocking stories of how the Iranian authorities eventually forced her into exile. Her sister a... continue
Genre nonfiction Memoir
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