Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir PDF
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tales of two cities by abbas milani " This is a tale on whose every word readers will hang. Tales of Two Cities is an engrossing, cross- cultural memoir of revolution and exile. It is the story of a 15 year-old Persian boy sent for his education from an old-world, pre-oil boom Tehran, to the new-world, avant-garde San Francisco of the 1960s. Abbas Milan! richly chronicles his education, politicization, return to Iran, disillusionment aQd eventual exile. Interwoven with the brisk narrative is a loving account of the traditional Iran of the author's childhood; a searing memoir of a lost genera- tion of Iranians torn apart by revolution and exile; a graphic portrait of the author's time in the shah's jail and of his cellmates, the mullahs who would soon emerge as the new leaders of the Islamic Republic. Tales of Two Cities is not only the odyssey of r intellectual doomed to exile, but also a Id uttimately salvation fof r of people forced to leave u lucky enough to be able to settle in America. *OftU>AirvAiKfr COUNCIL UBJUKy si*surrrsa street SAWFRANCISCO. CA NlOB Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 http://archive.org/details/talesoftwocitiesOOmila ^ ww tales of two cities S**^ a persian memoir m abbas an il i MAGE PUBLISHERS WASHINGTON, DC 1996 Copyright©1996AbbasMilani CoverpaintingbyParvizKalantari Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthis bookmaybereproduced orretransmittedinanymanner, exceptinthe formofa review,withoutwrittenpermissionfrom thepub- lisher.Mage andcolophonare registered trademarksofMage Publishers, Inc. FIRSTEDITION Printed andmanufacturedintheUnited States LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication ACIPcatalogrecord forthisbookis available fromthe LibraryofCongress Cloth ISBN0-934211-47-7 Magebooksare available throughbetter bookstores, Baker& Taylor, ordirectlyfromthe publisher; toll-free 1-800-962-0922 or202-342-1642. Call forcatalogorvisitMageonlineathttp://www.mage.com Zomyfather, and to thememory ofmy mother
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