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The Day of Sacrifice
This is a rare look inside the mysterious, romantic and turbulent Iran of the 1950's. KiaNoush is a young man without any convictions in a land of conviction at a time when sides are being taken. He is a product of eastern inner thought and western self-centered pleasure seeking. These conflicting forces are threatening to pull apart the stability of his Teheran. The city is corrupt and agitated when a plot to murder the Minister of the Interior comes to his knowledge. At the urging of his wise and imposing father, an icon of thought and restraint and a relic from an age whose days are numbered in Iran, KiaNoush agrees to thwart the plan and in the process gets thrown into the combustible mix of a land and people in transition from one world to another. Will he remain faithful to his father's wishes or will he succumb to the temptations of a new world of intrigue and freedom?
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First published January 1, 1960
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FM-2030
9 books28 followersFM-2030 (October 15, 1930 in Brussels – July 8, 2000 in New York) was an author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant. FM-2030 was born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary (Persian: فریدون اسفندیاری).
He became notable as a transhumanist with the book Are You a Transhuman? Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World, published in 1989. In addition, he wrote a number of works of fiction under his birth name, F.M. Esfandiary.
The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child, living in 17 countries by age 11, then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.
He became notable as a transhumanist with the book Are You a Transhuman? Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World, published in 1989. In addition, he wrote a number of works of fiction under his birth name, F.M. Esfandiary.
The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child, living in 17 countries by age 11, then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.
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May 29, 2015
Long before Islam and Islamic societies were known to most Americans this books was written. Even though the story takes place in Iran this could be taking place in any Islamic country in the Middle East, Africa, parts of Islamic Europe and the Far East. The author was a genius who towards the end of his life gave up on Islam and focused his creative energies to the distant future. A most brilliant work.
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