In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs

A Memoir of Iran

von Christopher De Bellaigue

304 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 hitherto hidden from American eyes, and reveals the true hearts and minds of an extraordinary people.

• Reihe: Harper Perennial
• ISBN: 9780060935368
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.01.2006
• Größe: 199 x 149 mm
• Verlag: HarperCollins