Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution and Leaving Iran - Softcover

Latifi Afschineh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0732282489 ISBN 13: 9780732282486

Publisher: Harper Collins, 2005

Synopsis

Growing up in Tehran in the 1970s, Afschineh Latifi and her sister and two brothers enjoyed a life of luxury. Their father had worked his way from nothing to become a colonel in the Shah's army. In 1979 he was arrested by members of the newly installed Khomeni regime. Fearing for their safety the children were sent to the west.

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About the Author

Afschineh Latifi was born in Tehran in 1969. She is an attorney and lives in New York City. This is her first book.

From Publishers Weekly

"Be like a nail!" Latifi's mother would scold when the author cried. These words are a testament to the grit Latifi displays throughout this wonderful memoir. The author was 10 and her sister 11 in May 1979, when their father, a military officer under the Shah, was executed by Khomeini's soldiers. Only 34, their mother was left to raise four young children (she also had two sons) in a newly fundamentalist society hostile to women. At first, the girls "loved putting on the chadors. It felt like Halloween." But when a villager started bidding on marrying Latifi's then 13-year-old sister, their mother knew they had to leave. Yet visas were routinely denied, passports arbitrarily confiscated. Still, Mrs. Latifi managed to take her daughters to Austria, where they attended a convent school (the boys remained in Tehran). The year in Austria was disastrous; the girls unwittingly spent the family's savings trying to overcome their loneliness. America was the next solution; there, the girls lived with relatives in Virginia and learned to take care of each other. Things turned out all right—the family was finally reunited, the children all chose good careers. Unlike many Iranian memoirs, most of this one takes place outside the country. Still, it's a remarkable, resonating tale. Photos. (Apr.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0732282489
• ISBN 13: 9780732282486
• Binding: Paperback