Children of Paradise
The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize
Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolution to the present day
In 1979, seemingly overnight, Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black box to the West, a sinister presence on the world stage. But inside Iran, a breathtaking drama has unfolded as religious thinkers, political operatives, poets, journalists, and activists have imagined and reimagined what Iran should be. They have drawn as deeply on the traditions of the West as on the East and have acted upon their beliefs with urgency and passion, frequently staking their lives for them.
With more than a decade of…
$24.00
February 7, 2017
LAURA SECOR has written about Iran for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, and other publications, and has worked at The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The American Prospect, and Lingua Franca. She has been a fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center and the American Academy in Berlin, and has taught journalism at NYU and Princeton. The author lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Children of Paradise
Laura Secor
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Ai Weiwei; Translated by Allan H. Barr
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart
Madhur Anand
North Korea Journal
Michael Palin
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
Ramachandra Guha
The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers
For the Glory
Duncan Hamilton
And Home Was Kariakoo
M.G. Vassanji
Gandhi Before India
Ramachandra Guha
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Empress Dowager Cixi
Jung Chang
Lives of the Family
Denise Chong
From the Ruins of Empire
Pankaj Mishra
The Beautiful and the Damned
Siddhartha Deb
On China
Henry Kissinger