We Heard the Heavens Then: A Memoir of Iran

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 ...