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Zusatztext "De Bellaigue gives us a sense of daily life in Iran . . . cynical! conflicted! and bitter! yet surprisingly vibrant." Informationen zum Autor Christopher de Bellaigue has worked as a journalist in South Asia and the Middle East, writing for the Economist and the Financial Times , the Independent , and the New York Review of Books . His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs , was short-listed for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize, and his second, Rebel Land , was short-listed for the 2010 Orwell Prize. He and his wife divide their time between London and Tehran. Klappentext The history of Iran in the late twentieth century is a chronicle of religious fervor and violent change -- from the Islamic Revolution that ousted the Shah in favor of a rigid fundamentalist government to the bloody eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But what happened to the hostage-takers, the suicidal holy warriors, the martyrs, and the mullahs responsible for the now moribund revolution? Is modern Iran a society at peace with itself and the world, or truly a dangerous spoke in the "Axis of Evil"? Christopher de Bellaigue, a Western journalist married to an Iranian woman and a longtime resident of a prosperous suburb of Tehran, offers a stunning insider's view of a culture hitherto hidden from American eyes, and reveals the true hearts and minds of an extraordinary people. Zusammenfassung The history of Iran in the late twentieth century is a chronicle of religious fervor and violent change -- from the Islamic Revolution that ousted the Shah in favor of a rigid fundamentalist government to the bloody eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But what happened to the hostage-takers! the suicidal holy warriors! the martyrs! and the mullahs responsible for the now moribund revolution? Is modern Iran a society at peace with itself and the world! or truly a dangerous spoke in the "Axis of Evil"? Christopher de Bellaigue! a Western journalist married to an Iranian woman and a longtime resident of a prosperous suburb of Tehran! offers a stunning insider's view of a culture hitherto hidden from American eyes! and reveals the true hearts and minds of an extraordinary people. ...
