{"product_id":"9780241744048","title":"Stolen Revolution : Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW **\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of modern Iranian history: the promise of the 1979 revolution, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eits betrayal by the Islamic mafia state and a people s undying spirit of resistance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFuelled by Iranians dreams of social justice and political freedom, the 1979 revolution swept aside the shah s ailing, repressive monarchy. But in its place the revolution s leader Ayatollah Khomeini and his acolytes built a system that served his narrow Islamic fundamentalist faction and worsened every failing and brutality that had existed under the shah. Award-winning journalists Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati tell the entwined stories of six Iranians, providing a powerful new lens on Iran s recent history in all its bitter twists and stubborn hope:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMehdi Karroubi\u003c\/b\u003e: a devotee of Khomeini, he rose to the heights of power on the wave of the revolution, before being cast out of its inner circle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHila Sedighi\u003c\/b\u003e: a young activist, who gave voice through her poetry to her peers hopes during the reform years and ultimately immortalised their shattered dreams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAmir Moghadam\u003c\/b\u003e: an ambitious government bureaucrat, who witnessed corruption and graft on a scale that impelled him to take enormous risks to expose the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSaid Rahmani\u003c\/b\u003e: a successful global tech entrepreneur who returned to Iran to spark a start-up boom in his native country, and encountered a ruthless security state that wanted his company for itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRozhin Yousefzadeh\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eKosar Eftekhari\u003c\/b\u003e: both born in the 1990s, they escaped their gendered destinies by leaving their hometowns for Tehran, where they joined a mass movement that confronted a ferocious state apparatus: the Woman Life Freedom protests. Each paid an enormous price.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough vivid and original reporting, \u003ci\u003eStolen Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compulsively readab\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viking","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48898502951147,"sku":"EB_HI1100_D15-01_SIMS","price":43.55,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780241744048-1.jpg?v=1785976142","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780241744048","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}