Daughter of Persia A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution

The Remarkable story of the daughter of a once powerful and wealthy shazdeh, or prince, Farmaian tells a fascinating tale of growing up in the 1930s in a Persian harem compound in Tehran. Breaking with Muslim tradition, she became an independent woman and found herself arrested as a counterrevolutionary. A dramtic window on Iran's journey through the twentieth century.Farmaian, Sattareh F. is the author of 'Daughter of Persia A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution', published 1993 under ISBN 9780385468664 and ISBN 0385468660.