City of Lies - Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
$34.57
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
10 August 2015
Summary
Lying in Tehran is about survival.
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 extraordinary lives.
Based on extensive interviews, CITY OF LIES chronicles the lives of eight men and women drawn from across the spectrum of I…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780225128 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780225121 |
| Author: | Ramita Navai |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 10 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 237g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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Ramita Navai’s City of Lies is gripping, a dark, delicious unveiling of the secret decadent life of Islamic Tehran, deeply researched yet as exciting as a novel
About The Author
Ramita Navai
Ramita Navai is an Emmy-winning British-Iranian investigative journalist, documentary maker and author. With a reputation for working in hostile environments, she has reported from over forty countries, made over thirty documentaries and features and worked as a foreign correspondent for print. City of Lies is her first book.
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