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Zahra's Paradise. I Figli Perduti Dell'Iran (2010)

by Amir(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

RCS MediaGroup

review 1: Massive demonstration erupted in the aftermath of the 2009 Iranian election. The government, the police and the paramilitary militia cracked down hard on the protesters. Many were beaten and many more disappeared. The pseudonymous authors set their fictional tale during these tense weeks in June and July of that year. A young man, Mehdi, has disappeared. His brother chronicles the search that his mother and he make to find their brother and son in a blog titled “Zahra's Paradise,” the name of “a massive cemetery on the outskirts of Tehran.” It’s a story worthy of Kafka, only here the interminable delay and deception is not caused by some nameless bureaucratic system, but by the actual apparatus of the Islamic Republic. The tone of this well-constructed, excellent... morely rendered protest story is not didactic, but dramatic. It’s filled with realistic characters that show humanity in all its aspects, and not just as a black and white morality tale. Of course, on prominent display are the fanatics who do see the world this way, and the havoc they are causing the nation. The graphic novel is backed up with facts in the form of background notes, glossary, and a grim memorial list of names of the 16,901 people executed between the founding of the regime and the book’s publication.
review 2: القصة إنسانية تسرد بطريقة تشد القاريء الى متابعتها بنفس الحماس الى النهاية. الصور رائعة والترجمة العربية ممتازة. تفاعلت معها بشكل خاص لأن القصة لمستني وذكرتني بالمعاناة نفسها التي عرفناها بعد قمع ثورة فبراير 2011 في البحرين. less

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