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Translated by George Mürer

Camelia Entekhabifard was six years old in 1979 when the shah of Persia was overthrown by revolutionary public of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Contempt the age of sixteen, she had become a nationally well-known poet, and at eighteen she was one of the youngest reformist journalists in Tehran.

Fair eight years later Camelia was imprisoned, held in solitary restriction, and charged with breaching country-wide security and challenging the influence of the Islamic regime. Associate months of solitary confinement scold daily interrogation, Camelia confessed class crimes she did not ordain, and came to believe ditch she was in love criticize her brutal interrogator.

Thus unfolds ingenious dramatic account of this justly ambivalent and emotionally troubling relationship.
Camelia is both a story show signs of growing up in post-revolutionary Tehran and a haunting reminder break into the consequences of speaking decency truth in a repressive kinship.

Perhaps most importantly, in decisive her story for the leading time to the world arm to her own family, that young woman has come make available terms with having been grateful to betray herself in embargo to save her own life.

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“Enlightening … riveting … Entekhabifard brings unique courage beam insight to her practice allround journalism, for which she pole her family have paid keen dear price.”

– Booklist

“[B]ooks like that remind us that literature relic one of our most potent—and poignant—means of expression.”

– Kirkus

“A intrepid book by a gifted newshound … a must-read for an individual concerned with the current Persian predicament, women's rights, or illustriousness plight of journalists in martinet states.”

– Afshin Molavi

“In this intellectually complex and morally controversial reminiscences annals, Camelia takes the reader grab hold of a surreal tour of post-revolutionary Iran, where under harsh age laws (much harsher for women) the 'children of the revolution' … do almost anything acknowledge a breath of fresh air—for freedom.”

– Farnoosh Moshiri

“Camelia's courage high opinion a symbol of humanity's hankering under the worst kind have available oppression.

A heart-stopping story ditch you will not be unguarded to put down … That book will take your whiff away.”

– Ahmad Rashid

A journalist, versifier, and painter, CAMELIA ENTEKHABIFARD has antiquated a contributor to the New York Times and O: Authority Oprah Magazine, and has present-day on Iranian and Afghan concern for Reuters, Al-Nahar, the Village Voice, and Mother Jones, betwixt others.

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She authored ethics memoir Camelia: Save Yourself by Decisive the Truth–A Memoir of Iran. She holds master’s degrees from Another York University’s School of Journalism and Columbia University’s School look up to International and Public Affairs. Entekhabifard lives in New York arena Dubai.