Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution

“[A] loving memoir, which both describes [Farmaian’s] lost world and, at the same time, why it had to disappear.”—The Wall Street Journal

“A lesson about the value of personal freedom and what happens to a nation when its people are denied the right to direct their own destiny. This is a book Americans should read.”—Washington Post

The fifteenth of thirty-six children, Sattareh Farman Farmaian was born in Iran in 1921 to a wealthy and powerful shazdeh, or prince, and spent a happy childhood i...