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Title: Letters to My Torturer : Love, Revolution, ...

Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

Prominent Iranian journalist and political activist Houshang Asadi was used to being arrested. This time, however, was different. Little did he know in 1983 that he would spend the next six years being brutally, mindlessly tortured by the very people he supported. Brother Hamid, 'Asadi's torturer, stopped at nothing to extract his confessions'. Asadi was a spy for Russia, for Britain, for anyone or anything. Hamid became an ambassador; Asadi a fugitive, haunted by nightmares and persisting pain. His feet lashed till lame, blindfolded, he was grilled until he could no longer phrase a simple question himself. Through these letters, Asadi recounts how his accidental friendship with a fellow prisoner, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, finally saved his life - and confronts his torturer one last time.

Review:

A harrowing memoir of imprisonment and torture under the Islamic Republic of Iran... With moving stories about fellow prisoners, biting commentary on the religious dictates imposed by his jailers and meditations on the soul-destroying effect of false confessions and the special cruelty of his ideological, authoritarian interrogators, Asadi s simple prose attracts even as the facts he reports repel... A horrifying glimpse of the decades-long nightmare still afflicting the people of Iran. --Kirkus Reviews

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