Nemat, a 16-year-old student activist at the start of the Islamic revolution, was arrested, jailed in Tehran\'s infamous Evin prison, tortured, and sentenced to death.
Her search for emotional redemption envelops her jailers, her husband and his family, and the country of her birth -- each of whom she grants the greatest gi.
Lyrical, passionate, and suffused throughout with grace and sensitivity, Marina Nemat\'s memoir is like no other.
She spent the next two years as a Prisoner of the state, and of the man who held her life, and her family\'s lives, in his hands.
If she didn\'t, he would see to it that her family was harmed.
But he exacted a shocking price for saving her life -- with a dizzying combination of terror and tenderness, he asked her to marry him and abandon her Christian faith for Islam.
Sentenced to death for refusing to give up the names of her friends, she was minutes from being executed when Ali, using his family connections to Ayatollah Khomeini, plucked her from the firing squad and had her sentence reduced to life in prison.
One beat her into unconsciousness; the other, Ali, fell in love with her.
Two guards interrogated her.
Soon she was arrested with hundreds of other youths who had dared to speak out, and they were taken to the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran.
She did, and, to her surprise, other students followed.
Her teacher replied, If you don\'t like it, leave.
But when math and hiStory were subordinated to the study of the Koran and political propaganda, Marina protested.
Until then, her life in Tehran had centered around school, summer parties at the lake, and her crush on Andre, the young man she had met at church.
In January 1982, Marina Nemat, then just sixteen years old, was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for political crimes.
What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life? In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding Story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini\'s brutal Islamic Revolution.
In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding Story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini\'s brutal Islamic Revolution.
Prisoner of Tehran is the heartbreaking Story of the price she was forced to pay for her freedom--and her life.
Nemat, a 16-year-old student activist at the start of the Islamic revolution, was arrested, jailed in Tehran\'s infamous Evin prison, tortured, and sentenced to death
