Prisoner of Tehran : One Woman's Story of Survival Inside an Iranian Prison (Paperback)

from LynnB

Marina Nemat was arrested as a teenager, tortured, forced into marriage and spent over two years in prison. Right from the beginning, you know the story ends well: she has re-married, this time to the man she loves, has two children and emigrates to Canada. After several years here, she and her h...

from clik4

Marina is a young girl growing up in safety and comfort in Tehran in the 70's and early 80's. A spirited soul with convictions of what is right, she questions her new government's replacement of a teacher and asks to be taught the subject matter, calculus. This rebellion is remembered by the new ...

from Zumbanista

Prisoner of Tehran by Canadian author, Marina Nemat is a memoir written in 2007. A part Russian Christian girl caught up in the Iranian Revolution, she was held as a political prisoner for 2 years in the notorious Evin prison when she was sixteen years old under the regime of the Ayatollah Khomei...

from AuntieClio

In a truth is stranger than fiction memoir, Marina Nemat writes about how speaking her mind in 1980 Tehran, Iraq got her arrested and sent to the political prison, Evin. All she wanted to do was actually learn calculus in her class, not Islamic doctrine. But speaking up, peacefully protesting and...

from ByTheBeatles

This was a very inspiring book of faith, love, and hope. The book starts out as a recollection of memories Marina has of her past, and all the beautiful, scary and dangerous moments of her life. She is a Christain living in a Muslim world, and is not seen as one to fit in. She stands up to what s...