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Marina Nemat tells the harrowing story of his life in Iran during Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution. In January 1982, she was just 16 years old when she was taken to Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Until then, her life revolved around school, books, summers by the sea and her love for Andre, whom she met in the Catholic Church. But when math classes turn into Koranic sermons and endless political propaganda, Marina can't keep quiet. Soon after, she is arrested with hundreds of other youths and beaten unconscious in Evin. Sentenced to death for refusing to give up the names of her friends, she will have to pay a shockingly high price for her life.

While many perish, some go mad, and the fate of others is unclear, Marina is incredibly lucky to escape the regime's iron grip and speak about her experiences. The power of her memoir, written with elegance and sincerity, lies in her ability to forgive her own parents, her first husband, her prison, her country. And not least, to herself, the survivor.