Bibliograph

In the house of my Bibi, growing up in revolutionary Iran, Nastaran Kherad

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In the house of my Bibi, growing up in revolutionary Iran, Nastaran Kherad

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In the house of my Bibi

Oclc number

276665148

Responsibility statement

Nastaran Kherad

Sub title

growing up in revolutionary Iran

Summary

"This is the powerful memoir of a girlhood spent during the upheaval of the Iranian Revolution. The author chronicles her early childhood with her Bibi (grandmother) as well as her imprisonment at the age of eighteen on trumped-up political charges. During her brutal incarceration in the women's cell block of the Adelabad Prison, in the southern Iran city of Shiraz, she was tortured and made to live in harsh, over-crowded conditions. Her brother, Mohammed, twenty-four, was on death row for his political views. The Ayatollah Khomeini's secret police had executed tens of thousands of students. Nastaran was torn between the traditional upbringing of a girl her age and the call of the modern world. Bibi mesmerized her granddaughter with countlesss stories, traditional prayers and simple, yet profound wisdom gleaned from a difficult life"--P. [4] of cover

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