| Description |
1 online resource (322 pages) |
| Contents |
Prelude -- Nasrollah -- Akbar -- Uncle Hossein -- This too shall pass! -- What is to be done? -- A theory of praxis -- The safe house -- Farhad -- Arzhang -- Things fall apart -- A journey to Chalous -- The trial -- Mr. Amin Salehi's fiftieth birthday -- The confession -- Mahler's Symphony no. 1 -- The Trotskyist -- Venom -- For the love of a thermos -- Bahram -- Pickled garlic -- The poet -- Breasted men -- Winter solstice -- The watch -- So Pocht das Schicksal an die Pfotre -- The Ayatollah. |
| Summary |
Set in the tumultuous aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979, Remembering Akbar weaves together the stories of a group of characters who share a crowded death row cell in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. A teeming world is evoked vividly through the relationships, memories, and inner lives of these political prisoners, many of whom were eventually executed. Told through a series of linked memories by the narrator, Akbar, whose striking candor is infused with a mordant sense of humor, the story takes the reader beyond mere political struggles and revelations, to a vibrant alternative histor. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Political prisoners -- Iran -- Biography.
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Iran -- History -- Revolution, 1979.
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FICTION -- Political. |
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Political prisoners |
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Iran https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtrYvcVTwChrDqytBvJXd |
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Revolution (Iran : 1979) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vB9cvdttrhwVwvJMVjK |
| Chronological Term |
1979 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz. Remembering Akbar. New York ; London : OR Books, [2016] 1944869034 (OCoLC)943593996 |
| ISBN |
9781944869199 (electronic bk.) |
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1944869190 (electronic bk.) |
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9781682190555 (electronic bk.) |
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1682190552 (electronic bk.) |
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1944869034 |
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9781944869038 |
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