What I was silent about. Memoirs of the prodigal daughter. Nafisi A.

Colorful, full of memorable details of the memoirs of Azar Nafisi, the daughter of the mayor of Tehran, draw the dramatic story of one family against the backdrop of political shocks in Iran. Nafisi’s father, a brilliant politician, ends up in prison, and some time after liberation leaves the family. The mother, with whom Nafisi has an extremely difficult relationship, is elected to the country's parliament. But due to revolutionary events, she is forced to abandon the position and, like all Iranian women, put on a hijab.

While the country is torn by a political struggle, the heroine is growing up. She studies, reads with enthusiasm and Nabokova, falls in love, gets married, gets divorced, starts new relations, teaches at the university, leads an underground literary circle, and finally emigrates. Her everyday life is an incredible ball of joy, pain, fear, disappointment and hopes. And the main question that is asked by Nafisi: what is the price of freedom in the country where freedom is less and less every day?