So on my most recent trip to India, I stayed in Haus Khaz Village over the weekend, and I wondered around the lovely village and stumbled into Yodakin bookstore. It is a fiercely independent bookstore that stocks the most amazing collection of publishing houses that will delight all you liberals. Books ranges from religion, to sexuality, to caste issues etc.
The book was originally translated to French by the author Chowra, the grand daughter of Aziz, who managed to escape to France; and I read the English translation of this book. It is the most heart breaking book I have read to date, more heartbreaking than "Escape from Camp 14".
Aziz, father of Fataneh and Fatameh, grandfather of Chowra, kept a diary so that Chowra would one day know what happened to her mother, Fatameh, and her aunt. Through this painful recounting of the years post Iranian revolution, you cannot help but cry for the people who lived and died during those painful years. There is really nothing much else to say because the writing speaks for itself. The measured words, and restrained writings could not contain the sorrow, the fear and the terror that Aziz feels, and how his heart and soul died along with his daughters. But he is still alive, with that despair, and that glimmer of leaving behind something for his surviving grandchildren.
I can't say anything else but please pick up this book to read.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I picked up many books, including one on the Iranian revolution. My interested about Iran was really piqued by Agro, because I know that there will be many factual inaccuracies in a Hollywood movie, and I really wanted to find out more. And I was really drawn to this book because it is the diary of this guy Aziz, who lived through the revolution... and this diary is unfortunately his memory of the merciless treatment that his daughters were put through by Ayatollah Khomeini's regime for being playing an active role in the revolution
The book was originally translated to French by the author Chowra, the grand daughter of Aziz, who managed to escape to France; and I read the English translation of this book. It is the most heart breaking book I have read to date, more heartbreaking than "Escape from Camp 14".
Aziz, father of Fataneh and Fatameh, grandfather of Chowra, kept a diary so that Chowra would one day know what happened to her mother, Fatameh, and her aunt. Through this painful recounting of the years post Iranian revolution, you cannot help but cry for the people who lived and died during those painful years. There is really nothing much else to say because the writing speaks for itself. The measured words, and restrained writings could not contain the sorrow, the fear and the terror that Aziz feels, and how his heart and soul died along with his daughters. But he is still alive, with that despair, and that glimmer of leaving behind something for his surviving grandchildren.
I can't say anything else but please pick up this book to read.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars