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Paperback Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir Book

ISBN: 1558618163

ISBN13: 9781558618169

Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir

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A moving account of life as a political prisoner in post-revolutionary Iran from the acclaimed Iranian author of Women Without Men.

Shahrnush Parsipur was a successful writer and television producer in her native Iran until the Revolution of 1979. Soon after seizing control, the Islamist government began detaining its citizens--and Parsipur found herself incarcerated without charges.

Kissing the Sword captures the surreal experience of serving time as a political prisoner and witnessing the systematic elimination of opposition to fundamentalist power. It is a harrowing narrative filled with both horror and humor: nights blasted by machine gun fire as detainees are summarily executed, days spent debating prison officials on whether the Quran demands that women be covered. Parsipur, one of modern Iran's great literary voices, mines her painful life experiences to deliver an urgent call for the most basic of human rights: the freedom of expression.

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