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The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran

By: Shida Bazyar, Ruth Martin - translator
Narrated by: Anoushka Rava, Dana Haqjoo
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Summary

A captivating, polyphonic tale of one family’s flight from and return to Iran.
1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah’s expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the courageous, intelligent Nahid.
1989. Nahid lives her new life in West Germany with Behsad. With their young children, they spend hour after hour in front of the radio, hoping for news from others who went into hiding after the mullahs came to power.
1999. Laleh returns to Iran with her mother, Nahid. Between beauty rituals and family secrets, she gets to know a Tehran that hardly matches her childhood memories.
2009. Laleh’s brother Mo is more concerned with a friend’s heartbreak than with student demonstrations in Germany. But then the Green Revolution breaks out in Iran and turns the world upside down …
A topical, moving story about revolution, oppression, resistance, and the absolute desire for freedom.

©2025 Shida Bazyar (trans. Ruth Martin) (P)2025 W.F. Howes Ltd. Family Life Genre Fiction Political World Literature Middle East Iran Heartfelt
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A tedious day to day account of events, hearing the people recount their lives in a succession of ‘this happened, then they happened and then this happened’. There’s no depth, no skilled expression to add layers to an account of events.

Pure drudgery

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robotic, out of step intonations and emotions with the words and sentences. Hurt my head. Couldn’t listen.

AI narrators? So bad

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