A piercing look at revolution through the wide-open eyes of a child, this is the true story of an extraordinary father/son relationship imperiled by Iran s ominous and drastically changing political climate.
Aria Minu-Sepehr was raised in a sheltered world of extraordinary privilege as the son of a major general in the Shah s Imperial Iranian Air Force. The 1970s were the end result of half a century of Westernization in Iran, and Aria s father was the man of the hour. But when the Shah was overthrown and the Ayatollah rose to power in 1979, Aria s idyllic life skidded to a halt. The surreal began to invade the mundane, pictures of executed family friends soon covered the newspaper, and ten-year-old Aria was thrust into the terrorized world of adults. In this critically acclaimed and deeply moving memoir, Minu-Sepehr takes us into the heart of the revolution when a boy s hero, once held up as the nation s pride, became a hunted man."