After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed
10 best books like After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed (Marina Nemat): Drood, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, Rooftops of Tehran, The Blood of Flowers, The Septembers of Shiraz, Not Without My Daughter, The Rise of Endymion, The Edible Woman, The Robber Bride, Auschwitz
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN | 0316007021 |
Drood… is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his life.
On June 9, 1865, Dickens and his mistress are secretly returning to London, when their express train hurtles over a gap in a trestle. All of the first-class carriages except the one carrying...
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
| Author | Firoozeh Dumas |
| ISBN | 0812968379 |
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi...
From "a striking new talent"(Sandra Dallas, author of Tallgrass) comes an unforgettable debut novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran headed toward revolution.
In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old...
| Author | Anita Amirrezvani |
| ISBN | 0316065765 |
In the fabled city of Isfahan, in seventeenth-century Persia, a young woman confronts a dismal fate: Her beloved father had died and left her without a dowry. Forced to work as a servant in the home of her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the Shah, the young woman blossoms as a brilliant designer...
| Author | Dalia Sofer |
| ISBN | 0061130400 |
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known.
As Isaac navigates the tedium and...
| Author | Betty Mahmoody |
| ISBN | 0552152161 |
In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation that turned into a permanent stay. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land...
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN | 0553572989 |
The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer,...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385491069 |
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach......
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385491034 |
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic...
Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies...
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN | 0553572946 |
Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raul and Aenea travel the river Tethys,...
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
| Author | Roya Hakakian |
| ISBN | 0609810308 |
From the Hardcover
“We stormed every classroom, inscribed our slogans on the blackboard . . . Never had mayhem brought more peace. All our lives we had been taught the virtues of behaving, and now we were discovering the importance of misbehaving. Too much fear had tainted our days. Too many...
My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran
| Author | Haleh Esfandiari |
| ISBN | 0061583278 |
My Prison, My Home is the harrowing true story of Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari’s arrest on false charges and subsequent incarceration in Evin Prison, the most notorious penitentiary in Ahmadinejad’s Iran. Esfandiari’s riveting, deeply personal, and illuminating first-person...
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
A love story and a reporter's first draft of history, Honeymoon in Tehran is a stirring, trenchant, and deeply personal chronicle of two years in the maelstrom of Iranian life.
Azadeh Moaveni, Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud...
| Author | Maryam Rostampour |
| ISBN | 1414371209 |
Embark on a chilling journey inside one of the world's darkest and most dangerous places: Evin, the notorious Tehran prison. Here, prisoners are routinely tortured, abused, and violated. Executions are frequent and sudden. But for two women imprisoned for their Christian faith--Maryam Rostampour...
Rosewater: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
| Author | Maziar Bahari |
| ISBN | 0812981804 |
When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three months in Iran’s most notorious prison,...
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
| Author | Azadeh Moaveni |
| ISBN | 1586483781 |
As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she was...
Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran
| Author | Roxana Saberi |
| ISBN | 0061965286 |
On the morning of January 31, 2009, Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist working in Iran, was forced from her home by four men and secretly detained in Iran's notorious Evin Prison. The intelligence agents who captured her accused her of espionage—a charge she denied. For several days,...
