Marina Nemat’s memoir is captivating from the first paragraph. Nemat describes her beautiful childhood, then contrasts it with her bleak teenage years. Those years were spent in Tehran's Evin prison during the Iranian Revolution. Her crime? Asking her teacher to teach calculus rather than the Koran. It is only through the intervention of one of her interrogators that her death sentence is reduced to life in prison. However, she must convert to Islam and marry him. As shifting factions fight for control of the government and the prison, her husband is assassinated. Through the intervention of his family (and a second meeting with the Ayatollah himself), Marina is released from prison. She relocates to Toronto and is finally able to embark on a normal life. --Lori L.Request Prisoner of Tehran from the Saint Paul Public Library.
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