我所缄默的事: 一位叛逆女儿的回忆

In this stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, Azar Nafisi shares her memories of living in thrall to a powerful and complex mother against the backdrop of a country's political revolution. A girl's pain over family secrets, a young woman's discovery of the power of sensuality in literature, the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by upheavalthese and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and ""reminds us of why we read in the first place"".