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The Bathhouse by Farnoosh Moshiri audiobook

The Bathhouse

By Farnoosh Moshiri
Read by Bernadette Dunne

Blackstone Publishing
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    ISBN: 9781441708564

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In the early days of the fundamentalist revolution in Iran, a seventeen-year-old girl is arrested because of her brother's involvement with leftist politics. She is placed in a makeshift jail—a former bathhouse, in which other women are also being held captive. These women range in age from adolescence to eldery, their mental states from stoic to insane.With intense emotion and great literary skill, Moshiri gives voice to these prisoners, exploring their torment and struggle, as well as their courage and humanity in the face of tyrants. Based on interviews with real women who have been imprisoned, Farnoosh Moshiri's novel is a gripping and moving narrative of oppression, injustice, and the human spirit.

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Summary

In the early days of the fundamentalist revolution in Iran, a seventeen-year-old girl is arrested because of her brother's involvement with leftist politics. She is placed in a makeshift jail—a former bathhouse, in which other women are also being held captive. These women range in age from adolescence to eldery, their mental states from stoic to insane.With intense emotion and great literary skill, Moshiri gives voice to these prisoners, exploring their torment and struggle, as well as their courage and humanity in the face of tyrants.

Based on interviews with real women who have been imprisoned, Farnoosh Moshiri's novel is a gripping and moving narrative of oppression, injustice, and the human spirit.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“It’s hard to stop reading…Horrible as it is, you don’t want to turn away from the girl’s first-person nightmare. The language in The Bathhouse is simple, the dialogue taut, the tension immediate.” —Houston Chronicle
“[A] gut-wrenching, eye-opening novel. The Bathhouse shows what happens when ideology runs amok. It honors the humanity and sacrifice of the victims.” —Tacoma News Tribune
“The starkly simple tale she tells is convincing in tone and substance…Moshiri’s impressive novel works at two levels, telling a compelling story while bearing witness to a brutal period in Iranian history.” —Publishers Weekly
“Bernadette Dunne’s narration of the young woman’s ordeal is rendered poignantly. Her delivery is emotional—the pain and despair of the characters are present in her voice in just the right amounts…the results make the book easier to listen to than it might be to read.” —AudioFile
“Both a resolutely nonpartisan antirevolutionary brief and a gripping, harrowing story of personal courage and endurance.” —Booklist
“Some of the torture scenes are graphic, but there is a great sense of humanity and caring in the face of unreasonable treatment and abuse…the insight of the book is universal.” —Kliatt
“Even as the prison strips away all hope, Moshiri never once lets us forget the humanity of the women of The Bathhouse as they form a family, with all of a family’s capacity for support, betrayal, despair, and dignity. The Bathhouse is beautiful and excruciating, written with such grace that it seems to exist out of time.” —Simone Zelitch, author of Louisa

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Author Bio: Farnoosh Moshiri

Author Bio: Farnoosh Moshiri

Farnoosh Moshiri was born into a literary family in Tehran. She earned an MA in drama from the University of Iowa and returned to Iran in 1979. After refusing to sign an agreement to obey the new regime, she went underground, escaping to Afghanistan and then India. She eventually graduated from the creative writing program of the University of Houston. The author of At the Wall of the Almighty, she currently teaches at Montgomery College in Houston, Texas.

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Available Formats : CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Historical
Runtime: 3.87
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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