The Evin Prison Bakers' Club Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes

16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran'A remarkable testimony to women's bravery, compassion and solidarity in the harshest of conditions... Think Nigella crossed with Nelson Mandela.' SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK'A fighting woman cannot be imprisoned because her voice is louder than prison walls. This book is proof.' Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winnerHow do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a tres leches cake. In Iran's prisons, women endure horrors: they are beaten, interrogated, and humiliated in a thousand ways. Even a whisper to a fellow inmate can be punished. Yet - in spite of anything and everything - they resist: they bake. They console each other, cry together, dance together.Sepideh Gholian, in prison since 2018, bakes scones, pumpkin pies and madeleines, alongside traditional Iranian sweets. The Evin Prison Bakers' Club is a call to stand up for Woman, Life, Freedom by a woman still fighting for a free Iran.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sepideh Gholian
• Con la collaborazione di: Hessam Ashrafi (Traduzione)
• Editore: Oneworld
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 19.03.2025
• Categoria: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie
• EAN: 9781836430308
• ISBN: 978-1-83643-030-8
• Numero di pagine: 183
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13.5 x 21.5 x 1.7 cm
• Categorie: Iran, Persepolis, baking, Desserts, COOKING / Methods / Baking, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, COOKING / Courses & Dishes / Cakes, COOKING / Courses & Dishes / Desserts, Ottolenghi, Political activism, Politics & government, Feminism & feminist theory, Marjane Satrapi, Politics and government, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Feminism and feminist theory, Cookery dishes and courses: desserts, Political activism / Political engagement, Mahsa Amini, Persian / Iranian styles, Jina Mahsa Amini, Woman Life Freedom, Narges Mohammadi, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, COOKING / Regional & Cultural / General, COOKING / Regional & Cultural / Middle Eastern, National and regional cuisine / Cuisine of specific cultures or peoples, Åsne Seierstad, memoir cookbook, white torture, THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, nazanin zarghari-ratcliffe, Iranian prison memoir, the bookseller of kabul, what iranians want, kylie gilbert, the stationery shop of tehran, then they came for me, Women Life Freedom, iranian activism, Reading Lolita in Tehran, women's resistance