Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir

272 Pages·1996·26.411 MB·English

by  Abbas Milani

tales of two cities
by abbas milani
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This is a tale on whose every word
readers will hang.
Tales of Two Cities is an engrossing, cross-
cultural memoir of revolution and exile. It is the
story of a 15 year-old Persian boy sent for his
education from an old-world, pre-oil boom
Tehran, to the new-world, avant-garde San
Francisco of the 1960s. Abbas Milan! richly
chronicles his education, politicization, return to
Iran, disillusionment aQd eventual exile.
Interwoven with the brisk narrative is a loving
account of the traditional Iran of the author's
childhood; a searing memoir of a lost genera-
tion of Iranians torn apart by revolution and
exile; a graphic portrait of the author's time in
the shah's jail and of his cellmates, the mullahs
who would soon emerge as the new leaders of
the Islamic Republic.
Tales of Two Cities is not only the odyssey of
r intellectual doomed to exile, but also a
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settle in America.
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1996
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