Born in Iran in 1946, Shahrnush Parsipur began her career as a fiction writer and producer at Iranian National Television and Radio. She was imprisoned for nearly five years by the religious government without being formally charged. KISSING THE SWORD is Parsipur’s account of this horrific and life-altering experience—nights blasted by the sounds of machine gun fire as hundreds of prisoners are summarily executed, and days spent debating prison officials on whether the Quran demands that women be covered.
Shahrnush Parsipur is the author of Women Without Men, Touba and the Meaning of Night, among many other books. She now lives in exile in Northern California.
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