Don't miss Shahla Talebi discussing her haunting memoir of imprisonment in Iran, Ghosts of Revolution, on Monday April 11 at Changing Hands in Tempe, AZ.
Hailed as "trenchant" and "poised" by Kirkus Reviews, Ghosts of Revolution is Talebi's astonishing story, which manages to combine a deeply personal account with a detailed historical and political narrative of violence, torture, trauma, the power of memory, survival and human resilience.
Talebi points us away from assumptions and oversimplification: this is a story of complex issues, where it is impossible to make sweeping judgments about anything, and where the boundaries between good and evil are blurred. Her singular position as a survivor of two externally and ideologically very different regimes affords her an extraordinary perspective from which to reflect on the use of imprisonment and torture as a means to a political end—not just in the “Islamic State,” but elsewhere around the world, and even in our own back yard.
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