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A note from Azadeh MoaveniI was born in Palo Alto, California, into the lap of an Iranian diaspora community awash in nostalgia and longing for an Iran many thousands of miles away. Five years ago, I moved to Tehran as a reporter, and watched my exile fantasies dissolve. I found an Iran that was culturally confused, politically deadlocked, and emotionally anguished, a society engaged in a visceral struggle over the fate of the Islamic Revolution. As an Iranian living this turbulent time, I felt permanently frustrated that my articles for the American media could not capture how Iranians were experiencing the transformations in their society. The rich panorama of Iranian life, its edgy underground, and stormy, shifting moods, spilled outside the frame of news. I wanted to explore the psychologies of young people —demographically, the country's future — and illustrate the kitsch, hedonism, and despair that underpinned their rebellion against the Islamic system. In the Iran that I knew, young people were not victims. I wanted to write something that reflected that, in a voice anchored in an emotional present tense. The young generation taught me that in order to unlock the mystery of Iran — how nothing perceptibly alters, but everything changes — you must live an approximation of a young Iranian's life. That is why I cannot write about them without writing about myself. That is why this is both their story, and my own. |
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HARDCOVERISBN 978-1-58648-193-3 Pub date: 02/04/05 Price: $25.00/34.95 Canada 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 272 pages Carton Quantity: 28 Memoir, Middle East Studies Selling Territory: US, UK, CW Rights: First Serial, British Commonwealth & Electronic Rights: PublicAffairs, Translation, Audio & Performance Rights: Diana Finch Literary Agency
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