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Lua De Mel Em Teerão (2000)

by Azadeh Moaveni(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Casa das Letras

review 1: An intriguing book that left me with mixed feelings. Azadeh Moaveni is an Iranian-born US journalist working for Time magazine in the Middle East. In 2005 she lives in Iran covering the elections and the unexpected rise to power of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Not a great deal happens in the book but she covers daily life in Iran, it's restrictions, politics and the difficulties of living under an oppressive Islamic regime. She herself seems somewhat conflicted in her views. At times she is nationalistic and seems to be trying to prove how forward thinking and open minded the people of Iran are, despite the corruption and restrictiveness of the government and the Mullahs. At other times she seems completely frustrated by Iran. She also has a conflicted relationshi... morep with Islam also. Trying to meld the more liberal form she had seen in America with what she now faced in Iran. She alternatively seeks to excuse Islam for the state of things in Iran and also blame it. Although I see that real life in any country is unlikely to be black and white and life is always complex I found her confusing at times. I also found myself captivated by her references to ancient Persian culture largely destroyed by the regime. Overall an interesting book that takes you somewhere.
review 2: So my wife picked this up on CD at the local library, and at first I thought it was some horrid love/romance fiction thing, but it wasn't, and I should have read the cover. I listened to it in ten minute segments going to and from school. Why do you care about that, I don't know. Sorry. I teach journalism, and it concerned an American journalist living in the Middle East covering the region for Time. Well, love being love, she falls for an Iranian (she's Iranian actually) and she has a baby and gets married and things go crazy in Iran (as we all know). She has money and he has money and we never see the underclass, but the book taught me much about the clerics and the religious police and how they hate sat dishes and thin veils. It sagged at times (like when she was looking for a wedding planner and such) and it was better when she got political and her dealings with Mr. X. It made me happy to hear a moderate cleric won the Presidency. But it may not matter much because he has so little power. Good book. less

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