When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s
presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that
he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he
know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three
months in Iran’s most notorious prison, enduring brutal
interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knew only by his
smell: Rosewater.
For the Bahari family, wars, coups, and revolutions are not
distant concepts but intimate realities they have suffered for
generations: Maziar’s father was imprisoned by the shah in the
1950s, and his sister by Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s. Alone in
his cell at Evin Prison, fearing the worst, Maziar draws strength
from his memories of the courage of his father and sister in the
face of torture, and hears their voices speaking to him across the
years. He dreams of being with Paola in London, and imagines all
that she and his rambunctious, resilient eighty-four-year-old
mother must be doing to campaign for his release. During the worst
of his encounters with Rosewater, he silently repeats the names of
his loved ones, calling on their strength and love to protect him
and praying he will be released in time for the birth of his first
child.
A riveting, heart-wrenching memoir, Then They Came for Me offers
insight into the past fifty years of regime change in Iran, as well
as the future of a country where the democratic impulses of the
youth continually clash with a government that becomes more
totalitarian with each passing day. An intimate and fascinating
account of contemporary Iran, it is also the moving and wonderfully
written story of one family’s extraordinary courage in the face of
repression.
關於作者：
Maziar Bahari is an award-winning journalist, documentary
filmmaker, and human-rights activist. A correspondent for Newsweek
from 1998 to 2010, he was born in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to
Canada in 1988 to pursue his studies in film and political science.
Bahari’s documentaries have been broadcast on stations around the
world, including HBO, the BBC, and the Discovery Channel. In 2009,
he was named a finalist for Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for
Concord, often described as Spain’s Nobel Peace Prize; he was
nominated by Desmond Tutu. He lives in London with his wife and
daughter.
Aimee Molloy is the co-author of three previous books: Jantsen’s
Gift with Pam Cope; This Moment on Earth with Senator John Kerry
and Teresa Heinz Kerry; and For God and Country with James Yee. She
also served as an editor of Laurie Strongin’s Saving Henry. She
lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
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