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Fattah is middle-aged and unmarried. A former hospital janitor who became rich working as a torturer in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, he now moonlights as an uncertified backstreet doctor specializing in 'honour surgery' for unmarried young women. Fattah has nothing but contempt for these women; that is until the beautiful Shahrzad lands on his operating table, and soon he is dangerously infatuated. Undeterred that she is promised to - and in love with - another man, the younger and less affluent Mostafa, Fattah sets out to win Shahrzad by any means. Robbed of his bride, the jilted and furious Mostafa launches a desperate plan to move her beyond his rival's reach by falsely reporting her as an opponent of the regime, a mission that takes him deep into Tehran's underworld of criminals and provocateurs. In Amir Cheheltan's critically acclaimed and searing novel - his first to be translated into English - power and corruption in post-revolutionary Iran are exposed through the actions of two men who work to exploit the chaos and confusion for their own benefit. The result is a provocative tale of a divided society where religious devotion and cruelty often go hand in hand.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Revolution Street
• Author: Amir Cheheltan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781851689842
• ISBN: 1851689842
• ID: 01256854
• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Weight: 392 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 143 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. March 2014

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