Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir

by شهرنوش پارسی‌پور and Shahrnush Parsipur

Book Overview

A moving account of life as a political prisoner in post-revolutionary Iran from the acclaimed Iranian author of Women Without Men.

Shahrnush Parsipur was a successful writer and television producer in her native Iran until the Revolution of 1979. Soon after seizing control, the Islamist government began detaining its citizens--and Parsipur found herself incarcerated without charges.

Kissing the Sword captures the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558618163
• ISBN13: 9781558618169
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.9"