{"product_id":"things-ive-been-silent-about-9780099487128","title":"Things Ive Been Silent About","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAzar Nafisi is a visiting professor and the director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University. In 1981 she was expelled from the University of Tehran after refusing to wear the veil. In 1994 she won a teaching fellowship from Oxford University, and in 1997 she and her family left Iran for America. She has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic \u003c\/i\u003eand has appeared on countless radio and television programmes.  She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and two children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThings I've Been Silent About \u003c\/i\u003etransports us to a world that is at once enchanting and threatening; it is a tale that mixes family feuds, politics and literature and holds our interest from the first to the last page * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eA beautiful and sensitive book... [Nafisi's] belief in the power of culture to transform lives and societies is inspiring * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eA companion memoir to the bestselling \u003ci\u003eReading Lolita in Tehran,\u003c\/i\u003e this is Azar Nafisi's more personal account of growing up in Iran...an intriguing memoir * Metro *\u003cbr\u003eNafisi's account is rarely shrill or self pitying, preferring to let her stories tell themselves -- Aamer Hussein * The Independent *\u003cbr\u003eThis powerful memoir, from the author of the global hit\u003ci\u003e Reading Lolita in Tehran\u003c\/i\u003e, is a bewitching story ... Set against the background of change before the Islamic Revolution, it is a complex, provocative story of family life, lies and loves * Good Housekeeping *","brand":"Cornerstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732245295447,"sku":"9780099487128","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099487128.jpg?v=1719996120","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/things-ive-been-silent-about-9780099487128","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}