Prisoner of Tehran

Marina Nemat 2007

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
political prison memoir survival injustice

Our Take

Nemat was sixteen when she was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and sentenced to death. Her memoir of Evin Prison is written with a clarity that makes the torture unbearable to read. She survived by marrying her interrogator, and that survival is its own form of imprisonment.

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