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Cry for my revolution, Iran

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Recently the dramatic novel Cry for My Revolution, Iran was reprinted. The novel stays a page turner from the beginning to the end no matter how late at night you are reading it and no matter how early in the morning your alarm clock is going to go off!
Given the new disclosures about CIA activities inside US and abroad and the Iraq war based on false premises the novel reads as if it was written today!

Cry for My Revolution, Iran is a sensitive and passionate historical and political novel, it is a big book written with a big sense of purpose to tell the truth without compromise. It is big in its scope, big in events it chooses to narrate and even bigger in its ambitions. The author Professor Manoucher Parvin, a polymath, embodies the story with ideas from all fields of social sciences and psychology and history in which he has scholarly publications.
At the end I was not sure if I was entertained more or learned more!
It starts like this: "At the beginning the world was full of beginnings.....There was no history yet; no man, no cannibal, no slave owner, no feudal land lord, no capitalist, no commissar fought over possessions, and no adjectives distinguished beauty from ugliness..."

Yes I do also agree with the reviewer of Choice: "[I] started the novel with skepticism but finished it with admiration for the author...Parvin has written a novel that is worth the strong attention of concerned Americans."
And I do agree with the Guardian. The novel about Iran 's revolution and revolutionaries will: "Take its place among the best of the third world political literature."

Cry for my Revolution Iran is a relentlessly absorbing story of lovers and revolutionaries spanning New York , Teheran, Washington , and the entire third world countries. As a well researched Documentary-Drama it will be read forever by those who want to know the truth about the revolution in Iran and the religious counter revolution. I recommend it to the readers of literary-political novels as well as to scholars.

I read Parvin's first novel, Cry For My Revolution: Iran after I read his last novel Alethophobia (fear of the truth). This is a memorable novel about a memorable event in history--the dismantling of US supported monarchy in one of the oldest countries in the world. It is a courageous and profound work because the author sides only with truth and evidence. Cry For My Revolution: Iran is a historic and political novel, with the inexorable force to wipe out illusions.
You will love the young lovers enmeshed in the revolution never losing faith despite grave adversaries circling their lives. Professor Pirooz is a mere observer sucked into the vortex of their lives.
With thoroughness of a meticulous scholar, and fervor of a brilliant novelist Professor Parvin describes the revolution, and explains its causes. Various interesting characters belonging to different political parties help to illustrate the broad spectrum of viewpoints of that time. The historic accounts are so compelling that no embellishments are necessary to hold readers attention.
To fully understand our relationship with Iran today, we as Americans must examine our dealings with Iran following World War II. We must learn that the CIA overthrew a democratically elected regime and replaced it with a dictatorship. The US created or supported many dictatorships inside the so called "free world" where torture of political prisoners were prevalent. Friendship between the US and Iran will not be achieved today until understanding based on truth about the past is realized.
In Cry For My Revolution: Iran, Parvin brings to light numerous media and government propagated untruths and omissions while weaving a compelling story. This is a must read for anyone who wants to know the real story.