An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah: A Memoir

"When I think of that morning in January 1979, I feel that heart-wrenching grief again in all its intensity. Tehran had been under savage attack for months, but now a tense silence had fallen over the city, as if our capital were suddenly holding its breath. It was 16 January and we were about to leave the country...." At the Age of Twenty-One, Farah Diba Married the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi. Her early years as queen were marked by her role as a devoted wife and mother and her dedication to the social and cultural causes of Iran. Twenty years later her life turned into a living nightmare as demonstrations and riots shook their homeland, and Farah and the Shah decided to leave the country in order to avoid bloodshed. Her gripping memoir offers an intimate view of a time of upheaval, but stands above all as a powerful human document from one whose life was caught up in an epic and tragic national struggle.Empress Farah Pahlavi is the author of 'An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah: A Memoir', published 2005 under ISBN 9781401359614 and ISBN 1401359612.