Kissing The Sword

by Shahrnush Parsipur
Kissing The Sword


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  • ISBN-13: 9781558618169
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Kissing The Sword is an important and shocking memoir of censorship and political oppression for writers in Iran. Acclaimed author Shahrnush Parsipur was imprisoned in Iran without ever being formally charged with a crime and in her revealing memoir she captures the surreal experience of serving time without being charged with a crime and witnessing the systematic destruction of any and all opposition to fundamentalist power.
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Kissing The Sword is an important and shocking memoir of censorship and political oppression for writers in Iran. Acclaimed author Shahrnush Parsipur was imprisoned in Iran without ever being formally charged with a crime and in her revealing memoir she captures the surreal experience of serving time without being charged with a crime and witnessing the systematic destruction of any and all opposition to fundamentalist power.