1. Star; 2. Adonai; 3. Persia; 4. Hawoo; 5. Scar; 6. Synagogue; 7. Bus; 8. Haji; 9. The GoldenThread; 10. Shame; 11. A Twist of the Knife; 12. Toghi; 13. A Knock on the Door; 14. Hell; 15. New Shoes; 16. Ultimatum; 17. The Spy in Everyone; 18. Rites of Passage; 19. The Genius; 20. Mahshid; 21. A Box of Prawns; 22. The Invention of Torture; 23. Turan; 24. Tashkilat; 25. The Contract; 26. First Mission; 27. Cigarette; 28. Bait; 29. Zionists; 30. The Passover; GLOSSARY
Summary
This is a memoir by Sydney-based doctor and writer/translator, Kooshyar Karimi, who in 2000 managed to flee, with his family, certain torture and death which stalked him on a daily basis in his native Iran. Karimi?s sin was his Jewishness and the fact that he helped desperate girls and women who had been raped, terminate the resulting pregnancies. Whilst many stories have come out of Iran in the last decade or so, nothing matches the grittiness of this portrayal of life in the crumbling alleyways and damp cellars of an Iranian slum district? the extreme poverty and desperation, the regular be
