The nights are quiet in Tehran
Bazyar, Shida, 1988-2025
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1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah's expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the courageous, intelligent Nahid. 1989. Nahid lives her new life in West Germany with Behsad. With their young children, they spend hour after hour in front of the radio, hoping for news from others who went into hiding after the mullahs came to power. 1999. Laleh returns to Iran with her mother, Nahid. Between beauty rituals and family secrets, she gets to know a Tehran that hardly matches her childhood memories. 2009. Laleh's brother Mo is more concerned with a friend's heartbreak than with student demonstrations in Germany. But then the Green Revolution breaks out in Iran and turns the world upside down.
Main title:
The nights are quiet in Tehran / Shida Bazyar ; translated by Ruth Martin.
Author:
Bazyar, Shida, 1988-, authorMartin, Ruth (Translator), translator
Imprint:
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2025.©2025.
Collation:
266 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in German as "Nachts ist es leise in Tehran" Kiepenheur & Witsch, Cologne, 2016.Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781761381416 (paperback)9781917809095 (UK edition)9781964992105 (US Edition)9781761386008 (ebook)
Dewey class:
833.92F
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
2725297