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This is a hard-hitting true story of a young woman who spent 8 years being tortured, starved, and threatened with execution, but who found strength in other woman and found joy in dark places. This physical book is evidence of an unbreakable spirit.
In 1979, Nasrin Parvaz returned from England, where she had been studying, and became a member of a socialist party in Iran fighting for a non-Islamic state in which women had the same rights as men. Three years later, at the age of 23, she was betrayed by a comrade and arrested by the regime's secret police. Nasrin spent the next eight years in Iran's prison system. She was systematically tortured, threatened with execution, starved and forced to live in appalling, horribly overcrowded conditions. One Woman's Struggle is both an account of what happened to her during those eight years, and evidence that her spirit was never broken. Nasrin's memoir is a story of friendship and mutual support, of how the women drew strength from one another and found endless small ways to show kindness and even find tiny specks of joy.
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https://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Readfest-larger-2020.jpg - Nasrin took part in an exiled writers event
https://twitter.com/FreefromTorture/status/1308696550063910913 - This video published by Free from Torture aligned with book sales.
It has recently been nominated for the People's Book Prize.
Social media campaigns were run along with blog tours.
Reviews
"Some things have to be said. Some books have to be written" - David Wagoner
"a real-life heroine. Her memoir transfigures inhumanity into a point of connection with the reader enriching us in the process." - Gail Aldwin, author of The String Games and The Paisley Shirt anthology
It deserves to stand with Primo Levi’s If This Is A Man as an indictment of cruelty, brutality and the dehumanizing of fellow human beings.’ - Catriona Troth, author of Gift of the Raven and Ghost Town
"A deeply affecting work. Nasrin Parvaz succeeds in
conveying the intense fear and claustrophobia of what it must be like to live under any intolerant, fundamentalist regime" - Rhiannon Lewis, author of My Beautiful Imperial
Author Biography
Nasrin Parvaz became a civil rights activist when the Islamic regime took power in Iran. She was arrested, tortured and sentenced to death in 1982. Her sentence was commuted to ten years imprisonment and she was actually released after eight years, in 1990. After her release, she fled to England, where she claimed asylum in 1993. She was granted refugee status a year later, and has since lived in London.
Nasrin is the guest artist of Our Lives, May 1st – 8th 2018 Exhibition of Art by Foreign National Prisoners. Her paintings were accepted for inclusion in the exhibition’s Calendar and for postcards. She has published numerous short stories and poems, winning a plethora of women's awards, including the Women’s World Award in 2003, The Bristol Short Story Prize, Women’s Issues category of the 2019 International Book
Awards. Nasrin studied for a degree in Psychology and subsequently gained an MA in International Relations at Middlesex University. She then completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Systemic Theory at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, where she worked in a team of family therapists.
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Copyright © 2018 by Nasrin Parvaz
First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Victorina Press
Victorina Press
Victorina Press was created by Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, a Chilean-British writer and academic. We are therefore rooted strongly in Chilean and British cultures. Our mission is to publish inspirational, quality books in the spirit of bibliodiversity, a concept developed by a group of Chilean independent publishers — Editores independientes de Chile. It encourages the celebration of a variety of voices from all over the world and prevents our publishing world from being a monolithic culture. Everyone has a story to tell. We want to be the ones to tell it. Consuelo’s Latin American roots play a huge role in our publishing today, with many of our books being translated into Spanish as stand alone or bilingual publications. Publishing everything from hard-hitting, inspirational memoirs, thrilling YA dystopias, gripping historical fiction, fun early learning, colourful, exciting children's books, literature for the classic shelf, and poetry to entice you, there is one book for every genre!
View all titlesBibliographic Information
- Publisher Victorina Press
- Publication Date December 2018
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781999619503 / 1999619501
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 10 GBP
- Pages350
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleOne Woman's Struggle In Iran
- Original Language AuthorsNasrin Parvaz
- Edition2nd
- Copyright Year2018
- Dimensions19.8 x 13 x 1.9 cm
- IllustrationN/A
- Reference CodeB086G18W83
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