Ebook: Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution

Prelude -- Nasrollah -- Akbar -- Uncle Hossein -- This too shall pass! -- What is to be done? -- A theory of praxis -- The safe house -- Farhad -- Arzhang -- Things fall apart -- A journey to Chalous -- The trial -- Mr. Amin Salehi's fiftieth birthday -- The confession -- Mahler's Symphony no. 1 -- The Trotskyist -- Venom -- For the love of a thermos -- Bahram -- Pickled garlic -- The poet -- Breasted men -- Winter solstice -- The watch -- So Pocht das Schicksal an die Pfotre -- The Ayatollah.;Set in the tumultuous aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979, Remembering Akbar weaves together the stories of a group of characters who share a crowded death row cell in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. A teeming world is evoked vividly through the relationships, memories, and inner lives of these political prisoners, many of whom were eventually executed. Told through a series of linked memories by the narrator, Akbar, whose striking candor is infused with a mordant sense of humor, the story takes the reader beyond mere political struggles and revelations, to a vibrant alternative histor.