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Things I've Been Silent About
By: Azar Nafisi , Azadeh MoavenieBook Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Random House Publishing Group
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In this stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, Azar Nafisi shares her memories of living in thrall to a powerful and complex mother against the backdrop of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets, a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature, the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by upheaval—these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and “reminds us of why we read in the first place” (Newsday).
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| Title of eBook: Things I've Been Silent About | |
| Release Date: 12-30-2008 | |
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| Publisher: Random House Publishing Group |
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| Parent title | Things I've Been... |
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| Encrypted (DRM) | Yes |
| SKU | 9781588367495 |
| File size | 5993 |
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Things I've Been Silent About
Chapter One
SaifiI have often asked myself how much of my mother's account of her meeting with her first husband was a figment of her imagination. If not for the photographs, I would have doubted that he had ever existed. A friend once talked of my mother's "admirable resistance to the unwanted," and since, for her, so much in life was unwanted, she invented stories about herself that she came to believe with such conviction that we started doubting our own certainties.
In her mind their courtship began with a dance. It seemed more likely to me that his parents would have asked her father for her hand, a marriage of convenience between two prominent families, as had been the convention in Tehran in the 1940s. But over the years she never changed this story, the way she did so many of her other accounts. She had met him at her uncle's wedding. She was careful to mention that in the morning she wore a flowery cr
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