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The theatre that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly over night - moving at a clip some 30 years faster than the rest of the world - Iran became the first innovative theocracy today. Since then, the united states has been generally a black box to the Western, a sinister existence looming on the horizon. But inside Iran, a breathtaking theatre has unfolded since then, as spiritual thinkers, political operatives, poets, journalists, and activists have imagined and reimagined what Iran should be. They have attracted as deeply on the traditions of the Western as of the East and have acted after their values with urgency and enthusiasm, frequently staking their lives on their behalf. With more than a ten years of experience confirming on, researching, and writing about Iran, Laura Secor narrates this unprecedented record as a story of individuals caught up in the slipstream of their time, seizing and wielding ideas powerful enough to move its course as they wrestle using their country's apparatus of violent repression as well as its abundant and often tragic record. Essential listening currently when the fates of our countries have never been more entwined, Children of Paradise will stand as a classic of political reporting; an indelible family portrait of a region and its own people striving for change.
