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I Confess: Revelations in Exile BOOK

I Confess: Revelations in Exile BOOK

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ABOUT THE BOOK :-
This is a memoir by Sydney-based doctor and writer/translator, Kooshyar Karimi, who in 2000 managed to flee, with his family, certain torture and death which stalked him on a daily basis in his native Iran. Karimi’s sin was his Jewishness and the fact that he helped desperate girls and women who had been raped, terminate the resulting pregnancies. Whilst many stories have come out of Iran in the last decade or so, nothing matches the grittiness of this portrayal of life in the crumbling alleyways and damp cellars of an Iranian slum district — the extreme poverty and desperation, the regular betrayals and compromises even within families, in the fight for survival. The memoir begins at his birth on the back seat of a police car in the sub-zero temperatures of a bleak and icy winter’s night. It finishes with a nail-biting telling of his eventual escape across the border into Turkey, only to be pursued by his nightmares, for which he seeks a measure of atonement in the writing of this book.
About the Author: ­-Kooshyar  Karimi
Kooshyar Karimi was born in December 1968 in the slums of Teheran, Iran, to a family living in abject poverty. His mother, Homa, was an orphaned Jew who married out of desperation to Khalil, his Moslem father, a bus driver with three wives and six other children to feed. At the age of five, Kooshyar was compelled to work in order to contribute to the paltry income of his family. He was only eleven years old when the Iranian Islamic Revolution ended the oldest lasting monarchy in the world. Amidst this post-revolutionary chaos, and the bloodshed of the Iran-Iraq war, Kooshyar pursued his education through to medical school with a determination to avoid war, stay alive, and support his mother. It is from here that he went on to become a published author, award-winning translator, doctor, husband and father by the age of twenty-six. After over two years of military service, Kooshyar began to successfully practice medicine and began the research for his book, A History of Iranian Jews. It is due partly to this dangerous project that Kooshyar was kidnapped from the street near his home one evening in the winter of 1998 by the Islamic Intelligence Service. Tortured, burnt, and whipped over sixty-five days, Kooshyar found himself faced with an unimaginable decision...to spy for MOIS (the Iranaian Internal Intelligence Service) against his own people or to be tortured slowly to death. His forced cooperation was a significant factor in the arrest of thirteen Iranian Jews in March 1999, a case that caused an international outcry.

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Author:  Kooshyar Karimi
Publisher:   Wild Dingo Press
Published:  1st September 2012
ISBN:   978-1459647220
Binding:  paper back 
Number Of Pages: 375
Dimensions (cm):  23.0 x 14.5 
Language:  English 


 

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