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100 1 $aDe Bellaigue, Christopher,$d1971-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004060752
245 10 $aIn the rose garden of the martyrs :$ba memoir of Iran /$cChristopher de Bellaigue.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$c2005.
300 $axii, 283 pages :$bmap ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: London : HarperCollins, 2004.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-283).
520 1 $a"Beside the highway that leads south from Tehran, the necropolis of Ayatollah Rudollah Khomeini rises from the sweating tarmac like a miraculous filling station supplying fuel for the soul. However, the paint is peeling even before the complex has been completed, and the prayer halls are all but deserted. Iran's Islamic Revolution is out of gas, but what has happened to the hostage takers, suicidal holy warriors, and ideologues who brought it about? These men and women kicked out the Shah, spent eight years fighting Saddam's Iraq, and terrified the West with its militancy and courage. Now they are a worn-out generation." "In this book, Christopher de Bellaigue gives us the voices and memories of these wistful revolutionaries. Mullahs and academics, artists, traders, and mystics: the author knows them as an insider - a journalist who speaks fluent Persian and is married to an Iranian - and also as an outsider - a Westerner isolated in one of the world's most enigmatic and impenetrable societies. The result is a subtly intense revelation of the hearts and minds of the Iranian people - and what it is to live among them."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aDe Bellaigue, Christopher,$d1971-$xTravel$zIran.
651 0 $aIran$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067888
651 0 $aIran$xSocial life and customs$y20th century.
852 00 $bbar$hDS259.2$i.D43 2005