false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181401678m/1147235.jpg 281572 15 What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life? In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, <I>Prisoner of Tehran</i>, 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. 2503347 1 5 2007 Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir total:551|5:199|4:233|3:92|2:23|1:4| 551 2253 911 160 5 3 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat May 05 10:00:26 -0700 2007 Fri May 18 09:20:23 -0700 2007 In a matter-of-fact tone that makes her vivid descriptions all the more compelling, Marina Nemat describes how she became a political prisoner in the early days of Iran's Islamic Revolutiona...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 28 06:51:05 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 23 09:04:28 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 27 15:24:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 12:55:47 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 09:57:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 16:28:37 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 16:28:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false true Thu May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 20:39:48 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 16:31:06 -0700 2008
It was very thought provoking. There are dire situations in whichyou wonder what you would do, or what your response would be. She had...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 12:38:35 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:38:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 18:15:54 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 18:15:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu May 08 11:03:14 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 11:08:48 -0700 2008 but i Couldn`t find lower rate to give it to your book .
your book is all about your private life with your investigator at Evin prison ,i`ve been in Evin when i was just 2 years old up to 4 with my mother...
and i can`t believe your whole story because tens of thousand...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 07:34:01 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 07:45:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 05 08:48:05 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 08:50:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 09:13:44 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 02:35:47 -0700 2009 Imprisoned along with several of her friends from high school because she, particularly spoke against the polit...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 10:44:48 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 10:49:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 07:45:37 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 07:50:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 22:12:17 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 16:29:24 -0800 2009
I have no doubt that Marina Nemat was in Evin (the notorious prison in Tehran), but was she really res...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 20 05:33:10 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 02:39:39 -0700 2009
"In 1982, sixteen-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. At a time when most teenage girls are choosing their prom dresses, Nemat was having her feet beaten by men with cabl...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 18:43:18 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 21:47:29 -0700 2009 Evin pri...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 14:28:59 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 11:23:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 22 08:07:39 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 03:38:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 04:34:30 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 04:34:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Aug 20 09:23:16 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 09:30:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1147235