{"product_id":"leaving-iran-between-migration-and-exile-9781771991377","title":"Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in searchof her imagined America. Meanwhile, the political unrest in Iranintensified and in 1979, Farideh’s family was forced to flee Iranon the last El-Al flight to Tel Aviv. Farideh's father was awell-respected son of the chief rabbi and dayan of the Jews of Shiraz.During his last visit to the US in 2006, he handed Farideh his memoirchronicalling  his life after exile: the confiscation of hispassport when he returned to Iran for his belongings, the years ofloneliness as he struggled against a hostile bureaucracy to return tohis wife and family in Israel, and the eventual loss of the poultryfarm that had supported his family. \u003cem\u003eLeaving Iran\u003c\/em\u003e knitstogether Farideh's story of dislocation and loss with her ownexperience as an Iranian Jew in a newly adopted home.","brand":"AU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53190354862423,"sku":"9781771991377","price":26.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/leaving-iran-between-migration-and-exile-9781771991377","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}