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City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran

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Description for City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran Paperback. Winner of the DEBUT POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015 A searing, energetic portrait of life in modern Tehran - 'deeply researched yet as exciting as a novel' Simon Sebag Montefiore Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JMG; HBJF1; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 242.

'Timely and beautifully written' Sunday Times

'Phenomenal. An extraordinary insight into a country barely known - an often feared - by the West' Vogue

'Utterly compelling' Daily Mail

'Gripping, a dark, delicious unveiling . . . Deeply researched yet as exciting as a novel' Simon Sebag Montefiore

Welcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of subterfuge. Here is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls' virginity and homemade porn is sold in the sprawling bazaars; a place where ordinary people are forced to lead ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780225128
SKU
9781780225128
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Ref
99-1

About Ramita Navai
Ramita Navai is a British-Iranian journalist and writer. For Channel 4's foreign affairs series, UNREPORTED WORLD she has reported from over twenty different countries, including Sudan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Nigeria, El Salvador and Zimbabwe. She was awarded an EMMY for her undercover report from Syria. She has also worked as a journalist for the United Nations in Pakistan, northern Iraq and ... Read more

Reviews for City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran
An intriguing book based on the premise that, to survive in a repressive regime where the government believes it has the right to interfere in even your most intimate matters, you have to lie... A talented writer... Navai has a reporter's eye for the telling detail... this is a timely and beautifully written insight into the ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran


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