A woman's journey from her father's harem through the Islamic Revolution.
After growing up in Iran, Sattareh Farman Farmaian emigrated to the United States in 1979, where she continued her career in social work. She lives in Los Angeles.
'This enthralling account...confirms my conviction, learned from
experience, that idealism does not die. Indeed, the human spirit
can still triumph, however brutal the tyranny under which so many
are destined to live out their lives'
*Christabel Bielenberg*
'A book with grat depth and richness...an absorbing adventure which
we can only read with growing admiration'
*Daily Mail*
'Her memories of her childhood...are lyrical and
enchanting...beautifully written'
*The New York Times Book Review*
'Once upon a time, long before fatwas and ayatollahs, the daughter
of a shazdeh, or prince, grew up in a Tehran harem. Sattareh lived
with numerous mothers, more than 30 siblings and some thousand
servants...Sattareh's father may have been autocratic,
infuriatingly stingy and over 60 at the time of her birth, but he
was also unusually enlightened. His motto "education is everything"
applied as much to daughters as to sons. It paid off, for Sattareh
provides an accomplished portrait of a childhood enriched by
nightingales and bazaars, politics and family romances. More
impressively, she broke with tradition to study in California,
returned to found the Tehran School of Social Work and, after the
Shah's downfall, survived execution by a whisker'
*She Magazine*
'A wonderful book to read and own; a treasury of human
experience'
*Fay Weldon*
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