Marina Nemat writes memoir about imprisonment, political repression, faith and exile after the Iranian Revolution. Prisoner of Tehran recounts her arrest as a teenager for opposing conditions at school, her imprisonment in Evin Prison, interrogation, torture and a coerced marriage to a prison guard who intervenes in her sentence. The book also follows the consequences of survival after her release and eventual move to Canada. After Tehran continues from the point where many prison memoirs end, concentrating on family silence, trauma, marriage, migration and the difficulty of building an ordinary life after political violence. Nemat's prose is direct, chronological and accessible, with personal memory kept at the centre rather than broad political analysis. Her work fits Iranian memoir, prison writing, women's life writing and books about political persecution. Read more Less
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