City of Lies
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'Timely and beautifully written' Sunday Times
'Phenomenal. An extraordinary insight into a country barely known - an often feared - by the West' Vogue
'Utterly compelling' Daily Mail
'Gripping, a dark, delicious unveiling . . . Deeply researched yet as exciting as a novel' Simon Sebag Montefiore
Welcome to Tehran,…
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I love to travel and am fascinated by the world we live in and its astonishing diversity of cultures. Iran is a country I’ve yet to visit, and this book is a powerful, at times heart-wrenching account of life in the capital under a harsh, repressive, and unforgiving theocracy.
Through collected accounts of real citizens (names and details changed), Navai explores the extraordinary nature of everyday existence in Tehran as people navigate the hypocrisies, treacheries, taboos, fatwas, the morality police, the ever-watching and interfering government, and more. It is life in a world gone horribly wrong, covering varied tiers of…
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