{"product_id":"stolen-revolution-betrayal-hope-in-modern-iran","title":"Stolen Revolution","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Rare and riveting' LYSE DOUCET\u003cbr\u003e 'A must-read . . . compulsively readable . . . unputdownable' JON LEE ANDERSON\u003cbr\u003e 'Rarely has a book been so timely . . . Essential reading' LINDSEY HILSUM\u003cbr\u003e 'Extraordinarily powerful' JACK STRAW\u003cbr\u003e 'One of the most perceptive books on modern Iran in years' \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTHE NEW STORY OF IRAN\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003eThe moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of modern Iranian history: from the promise of the 1979 revolution to its betrayal by the Islamic mafia state and a people's undying spirit of resistance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Fuelled by Iranians' dreams of social justice and political freedom, the 1979 revolution swept aside the shah's ailing, repressive monarchy. But in its place the revolution's leader Ayatollah Khomeini and his acolytes built a system that served his narrow Islamic fundamentalist faction and worsened every failing and brutality that had existed under the shah. In this landmark new book, award-winning journalists Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati tell the entwined stories of six Iranians, providing a powerful new lens on Iran's recent history in all its bitter twists and stubborn hope:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e * \u003cb\u003eMehdi Karroubi\u003c\/b\u003e: a devotee of Khomeini, he rose to the heights of power on the wave of the revolution, before being cast out of its inner circle.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e * \u003cb\u003eHila Sedighi\u003c\/b\u003e: a young activist, who gave voice through her poetry to her peers' hopes during the reform years and ultimately immortalised their shattered dreams.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e * \u003cb\u003eAmir Moghadam\u003c\/b\u003e: an ambitious government bureaucrat, who witnessed corruption and graft on a scale that impelled him to take enormous risks to expose the truth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e * \u003cb\u003eSaid Rahmani\u003c\/b\u003e: a successful global tech entrepreneur who returned to Iran to spark a start-up boom in his native country, and encountered a ruthless security state that wanted his company for itself.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e * \u003cb\u003eRozhin Yousefzadeh\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eKosar Eftekhari\u003c\/b\u003e: both born in the 1990s, they escaped their gendered destinies by leaving their hometowns for Tehran, where they joined a mass movement that confronted a ferocious state apparatus: the Woman Life Freedom protests. Each paid an enormous price.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through vivid and original reporting, \u003ci\u003eStolen Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compulsively readable new story of Iran, centring ordinary Iranians' lives, whilst providing a visceral understanding of how life is actually lived under a modern authoritarian state. This is a harrowing story of power, corruption and greed - and those brave individuals who fought back.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Profoundly affecting\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003eOne of the most incisive works on Iranian society in a generation'\u003c\/b\u003e SCOTT ANDERSON, author of \u003ci\u003eKING OF KINGS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eExcellent . . . tells the tragic but often inspiring story of Iran over the last fifty years . . . Essential'\u003c\/b\u003e JASON BURKE, author of \u003ci\u003eTHE REVOLUTIONISTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Riveting . . . reads like a high-octane political drama'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eHERALD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Stolen Revolution: Betrayal \u0026 Hope in Modern Iran","offer_id":46347044192453,"sku":null,"price":48.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/stolen-revolution-betrayal-hope-in-modern-iran","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}