Narrative
Iran: A Child's Story, a Man's Experience
Gholamreza Sabri Tabrizi · 1989
Synopsis
By arbitrated exception, and for lack of any description other than the publisher's, this synopsis keeps to it. The author, a native of Tabriz who has lived in Britain since 1959, gathers in it his childhood memories and his impressions of life in Iran, from the thirties to the revolution of 1979, and through them traces the social, cultural and political history of a country that has been sorely tried. The title announces the two parts of the book, the story of a child and the experience of a man.
Context
The book was published in Edinburgh by Mainstream in 1989, three hundred and four pages, and was reviewed in 1991 by Haleh Esfandiari, of Princeton University, in the International Journal of Middle East Studies. It is the second of the two books its author published in English, sixteen years after his study on William Blake. Goodreads dates the first publication to September 1988, the Matheson library and the Cambridge journal to 1989; the author page says it was published in London and New York.
Who it is for
In English, about three hundred pages; a personal testimony rather than a historian's book, to be read as memoirs.
Prizes and reception
Reviewed in 1991 by a scholarly Cambridge journal devoted to the Middle East, by a researcher from Princeton.
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