In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs A Memoir of Iran

Name: In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs A Memoir of Iran
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ISBN: 9780060935368

ISBN-10: 0060935367

ISBN-13: 9780060935368

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Authors: Christopher de Bellaigue

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The history of Iran in the late twentieth century is a chronicle of religious fervor and violent change -- from the Islamic Revolution that ousted the Shah in favor of a rigid fundamentalist government to the bloody eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But what happened to the hostage-takers, the suicidal holy warriors, the martyrs, and the mullahs responsible for the now moribund revolution? Is modern Iran a society at peace with itself and the world, or truly a dangerous spoke in the "Axis of Evil"? Christopher de Bellaigue, a Western journalist married to an Iranian woman and a longtime resident of a prosperous suburb of Tehran, offers a stunning insider's view of a culture…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in 1971. He studied at Cambridge and writes for Granta and the New York Review of Books. He is married and lives in Iran.