My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir

My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir
by Zarah Ghahramani

My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir
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Author: Zarah Ghahramani
Contributor: Robert Hillman
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-01-06
ISBN: 0374531641
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Book Review: Cried all the way through
Summary: 5 Stars

Finished this book in one sitting and cried my way through most of it. Yes, it's somewhat simplistically written, but the author's experience is an everyday experience in Iran. For both men and women, when someone is arrested, and even more so since the election this year (2009), there are forced confessions to crimes not committed, rape, torture and a whole lot more that could fill several volumes. This was their 1979 revolution? This is how a theocracy treats its people?

The spirit of the author, and many thousands more like her, is to be revered and absorbed. I read this book in 2007 and it often comes to mind. It's not only a credit to her that she survived to tell the tale (many don't), but to inspire others with courage, tenacity and survival at such a young age, in my mind, is the secondary point of telling the story. The primary point is to remind us that this is happening every day in places like Iran, while we go about our daily lives, often oblivious to the everyday imprisonment and torture of innocent people in many countries, not just Iran.

Summary of My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir

At the age of twenty, Zarah Ghahramani was swept off the streets of Tehran and taken to the notorious Evin prison, where criminals and political dissidents were held side by side in conditions of legendary brutality. In this richly textured memoir, she tells the terrifying, inspiring story of her time in prison. My Life as a Traitor celebrates a triumph of the individual over the state and is an affecting addition to the literature of struggle and dissent.

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