White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners by Narges Mohammadi

White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners by Narges MohammadiWINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023 'A must read for anyone concerned with human rights in Iran. A gripping, moving and utterly shocking account.' Kylie Moore Gilbert Iranian prisons systematically violate human rights. In White Torture, fourteen women, including Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, share their experiences of imprisonment: harassment and beatings by guards, total blindfolding and denial of medical treatment. Angry interrogators threaten their

hierarchical and paternalist society

'If we have to be lost

Simmonds continues to write through the prism of her faith

He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly

or a hole cut through the wire fencing that keeps the monsters out

Featuring 256 pages of full-colour illustrations and easy-to-understand text covering the first part of the full-length original edition

(An) extraordinary and often illuminating novel' - Financial Times

determined to conquer the sinkhole that is threatening to swallow his town

or the samurai Way of the Warrior

orphan and housemaid

turns to a riskier way of making money but will be forced to confront the danger of the game she's playing

but the wider landscape - public and private