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By Maziar Bahari, Aimee Molloy

ISBN-10: 0679604197

ISBN-13: 9780679604198

NOW an enormous movie DIRECTED through JON STEWART | formerly released as Then They got here for Me

When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to hide Iran’s presidential election, he guaranteed his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be again in exactly a number of days, per week at so much. Little did he understand, as he kissed her goodbye, that he might spend the following 3 months in Iran’s so much infamous legal, enduring brutal interrogation periods by the hands of a guy he knew in basic terms through his odor: Rosewater.
 
For the Bahari relations, wars, coups, and revolutions will not be far-off innovations yet intimate realities they've got suffered for generations: Maziar’s father used to be imprisoned by means of the shah within the Nineteen Fifties, and his sister by way of Ayatollah Khomeini within the Eighties. by myself in his telephone at Evin legal, fearing the worst, Maziar attracts power from his stories of the braveness of his father and sister within the face of torture, and hears their voices chatting with him around the years. He desires of being with Paola in London, and imagines all that she and his rambunctious, resilient eighty-four-year-old mom has to be doing to crusade for his unlock. through the worst of his encounters with Rosewater, he silently repeats the names of his family, calling on their power and like to safeguard him and praying he'll be published in time for the beginning of his first child.
 
A riveting, heart-wrenching memoir, Rosewater deals perception into the prior seventy years of regime swap in Iran, in addition to the way forward for a rustic the place the democratic impulses of the early life continuously conflict with a central authority that turns into extra totalitarian with each one passing day. An intimate and interesting account of up to date Iran, it's also the relocating and fantastically written tale of 1 family’s remarkable braveness within the face of repression.
 
“I particularly attached to Maziar’s tale. It’s a private tale yet one with common allure approximately what it skill to be free.”—Jon Stewart
 
“An vital and chic e-book . . . a jail memoir enlarged right into a relations history.”The New Republic
 
“Clear and compelling . . . enticing and informative—a gripping tribute to human commitment and a cogent indictment of a corrupt regime.”Washington self sufficient evaluate of Books
 
“[Rosewater] is not just a desirable, human exploration into Bahari’s own event . . . it additionally presents perception into the shared event of these suffering from repressive governments everywhere.”Mother Jones

“A damning account . . . [Rosewater] turns a lens not just on Iran’s surreal justice process yet at the historical past and tradition that helped produce it.”The Washington Post
 
“[Rosewater] is a different success. it's a tale not only of political cruelty (a topic Bahari treats movingly), but in addition in regards to the poles of Iranian political tradition, bent jointly in upheaval.”The parent (UK)
 
“A fantastically written account of lifestyles in Iran, full of insights not just into the ability struggles and political machinations yet into the non-public, emotional lives of the folk residing in that advanced kingdom. Maziar Bahari is a courageous guy and a superb storyteller.”—Fareed Zakaria

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