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Award-Winner in the Women\u2019s Issues category of the 2019 International Book
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In 1979, Nasrin Parvaz returned from England, where she had been \nstudying, and became a member of a socialist party in Ira fighting for a\n non-Islamic state in which woman had the same rights as men. Three \nyears later, at the age of 23, she was betrayed by a comrade and \narrested by the regime\u2019s secret police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nasrin spent the next eight years in Iran\u2019s prison system. She as \nsystematically tortured, threatened with execution, starved and forced \nto live in appalling, horribly overcrowded conditions. One Woman\u2019s Struggle <\/em>is\n both an account of what happened to her during those eight years and \nevidence that her spirit was never broken. Nasrin\u2019s memoir is a story of\n friendship and mutual support, of how women drew strength from one \nanother and found endless small ways to show kindness and even find tiny\n specks of joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This book, however, is not simply about the prison system in Iran. It is about oppression \u2013 and especially\u00a0the oppression of woman \u2013 wherever it takes place. It deserves to stand with Primo Levi\u2019s\u00a0 If This Is A Man\u00a0<\/em>as an indictment of cruelty, brutality and the dehumanizing of fellow human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Catriona Troth, author of\u00a0Gift of the Raven\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Ghost Town.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.victorinapress.com\/product\/one-womans-struggle-in-iran-a-prison-memoir\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Award-Winner in the Women\u2019s Issues category of the 2019 International Book Awards In 1979, Nasrin Parvaz returned from England, where she had been studying, and became a member of a socialist party in Ira fighting for a non-Islamic state in which woman had the same rights as men. Three years later, at the age of … Continue reading One Woman’s Struggle in Iran: A Prison Memoir<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[34,36,20,33,31,21,35,32],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-children-in-prison","tag-execution","tag-iran","tag-politics","tag-prison-memoir","tag-resistance","tag-torture","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}