Click to play videoNew Delhi: Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi's autobiography Iran Awakening is undoubtedly insightful and emotional.
It captures Iran's transitional phase - the in-between generation, who bridled under the Shah, believed in the Islamic revolution, but found that the subsequent sea change left them out in the cold.
Qualified to be a judge, Ebadi is sidelined like many other educated women, but she refuses give up.
She gets out of the system and takes the fight to the hard-line clerics. But the battle is not on her terms, and it's a dangerous one.
For instance, when she finds her name on a death list, ‘An interesting thing happened to me today’, she tells her husband.
Ebadi writes beautifully, of an atmosphere of twisted paranoia and state cruelty and worse but also of hope, her cases, her struggle, and even as a mother, who struggles to let her daughter go, to leave for Canada, when she herself could never abandon Iran.
The book is an insider's story, a story of courage, of spirit and quite the eye-opener on life in Iran, without the clichés.
It is definitely something to pick up for a fulfilling read, except for a price tag (Rs 626), which is slightly on the higher side.
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