Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

By Maziar Bahari

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Social Sciences

Then They Came for Me (2011) is journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari's memoir of his 118 days of imprisonment in Tehran's Evin Prison after Iran's disputed 2009 presidential election. Accused of spying, Bahari describes long interrogations by a man he knew only by his rosewater scent. He interweaves his ordeal with the history of his family, whose members were also imprisoned under the shah and the Islamic Republic. The book was later adapted as the film Rosewater (2014).

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