The summary of the book 'What I was silent about. Memoirs of the Prodigal daughter' Nafisi A.:The colorful memoirs of Azar Nafisi, the daughter of the mayor of Tehran, full of memorable details, depict the dramatic story of one family against the background of political upheaval in Iran.Nafisi's father, a brilliant politician, ends up in prison, and after some time after his release leaves the family. The mother, with whom Nafisi has an extremely difficult relationship, is elected to the country's parliament. But due to the revolutionary events, she is forced to resign her position and, like all Iranian women, put on a hijab. While the country is torn apart by political strife, the heroine is growing up. She studies, enthusiastically reads Firdousi and Nabokov, falls in love, marries, divorces, starts a new relationship, teaches at the university, leads an underground literary circle, finally emigrates. Her everyday life is an incredible tangle of joy, pain, fear, disappointment and hope. And the main question that Nafisi is asking is: what is the price of freedom in a country where freedom is becoming less and less every day? Read more…