Story Description:
Harper Collins Publishers Ltd|May 14, 2012|
Hardcover|ISBN: 978-1-55468-972-9
In 2006, Vancouver’s Nazanin Afshin-Jam was on top of
the world. A year earlier, she had won
runner-up at Miss World, the first time an Iranian-born woman had ever finished
so high in the competition. She had
signed her first record deal and was a sought-after fashion model. But one rainy afternoon, Nazanin received an
email that would change her life. Please
help! Please save her!
Thousands of miles away in Tehran, the subject of that
email: a poverty stricken seventeen-year-old Kurdish-Iranian named Nazanin
Fatehi was preparing for her execution, punishment for an act that was, in her
mind, not a crime: she had stabbed a man who had tried to rape her. Afshin-Jam quickly came to Fatehi’s defence,
striding into the world of the United Nations and international diplomacy,
attempting to force Iran to reopen Fatehi’s case and stay the execution.
The Tale of
Two Nazanins weaves the inspiring real-life stories of two women,
their sisterly bond and their fight for justice that, for the first time since
the 1979 revolution, brought the Iranian regime to its knees, if only for a
brief moment.
My Review:
It is not very often that I don’t actually write a
review of my own but this is one of those times. This was the most startlingly, eye-opening,
heart-crushing piece of non-fiction I’ve read in a while. I think the description above tells, in
fairly good detail, what this story is about.
I recommend that everyone read it you’ll be appalled at the number of
executions of “teenagers” and the brutality that they suffer at the hands of
their captors. It’s unimaginable!
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