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Jasmin Darznik
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Tehran, Iran
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January 2011
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The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
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2011
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21 editions
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Song of a Captive Bird
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2018
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Red Fire: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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"Reality look at Iran and treatment of women even today. Poet Forugh Farrokhzad's fierce independence as a woman began at an early age through her writings. A pioneer of woman's rights her works live on. This book's details allow the reader to see..."
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"Lovely. This fictionalization of the life of Forugh Forrokzad is as much about Iran in the years of the Shah as it is about the poet. I was not familiar with her work, which I had since sought out and if this book motivates other to do so as well..."
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"I LOVED this book. Going into it I had no idea who Forugh Farrokhzad was going into this but after reading this book I want to read all of her collected works and learn everythign about her. The book made me cry, it made me think, and in just one..."
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Thought-provoking, engrossing, and beautifully written Sundeen brings his subject to life with fantastic details and great storytelling. I didn't expect a book I couldn't put down, but that's what this is. An important book, full of unforgettable peop ...more |
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“I was a woman and I couldn't speak with the voice of a man, because it was not my voice - not true and not my own. But there was more to it than that. By writing in a woman's voice I wanted to say that a woman, too, is a human being. To say that we, too, have the right to breathe, to cry out, and to sing.”
― Song of a Captive Bird
― Song of a Captive Bird
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