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Farewell Shiraz : an Iranian Memoir of Revolution and Exile.
In Farewell Shiraz, Kadivar tells the story of his family and childhood against the tumultuous backdrop of twentieth-century Iran, from the 1905-1907 Constitutional Revolution to the fall of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, before presenting accounts of his meetings with key witnesses to the Shah's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: Of things past
- Roses and nightingales
- Land of fars
- Dream city
- A new world
- Love and politics
- Homecoming
- Age of innocence
- Spellbound
- Our house
- A false stability
- Gathering storm
- Uneasy summer
- Writing on the wall
- End of an era
- Revolution!
- Farewell youth
- Part 2: Exile
- Displaced
- Café de la Paix
- After Khomeini
- Reunion
- The Shah's ghost
- Part 3: Witnesses and survivors
- Past errors
- Whirlwind
- Night of the generals
- Sentimental journey
- Father and son
- Soraya
- Persepolis revisited
- Ex-ambassador
- No regrets
- Palace witnesses
- Master of ceremonies
- Security of the realm
- The diplomat
- The general's widow
- Khosrowdad
- Blue eyes
- Hoveyda's end
- The last empress
- Epilogue
- Sources and bibliography
- Photographic credits
- Index.