The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club by Sepideh Gholian audiobook

The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club: Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes

By Sepideh Gholian
Translated by Hessam Ashrafi
Read by Ashraf Shirazi

Blackstone Publishing 9781836430308

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    ISBN: 9798228363182

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    ISBN: 9798228363199

Runtime: 3.43 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A London Sunday Times Pick of Best Book of the Week

A London Guardian Pick of the Day

How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a tres leches cake.

In Iran’s prisons, women endure horrors: they are beaten, interrogated, and humiliated in a thousand ways. Even a whisper to a fellow inmate can be punished. Yet—in spite of anything and everything—they resist: they bake. They console each other, cry together, dance together.

Sepideh Gholian, in prison since 2018, bakes scones for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s daughter, a pumpkin pie for Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, and madeleines for Marzieh Amiri, serving time for a May Day demonstration in 2019.

The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club is a call to stand up for women, life, and freedom, by a woman still fighting for a free Iran.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Unusual, haunting.” —New Yorker
“Gholian’s account…is a blindsiding blend of horrifying concrete detail, dizzying surrealism, and wild optimism.” —The Guardian (London)
“A remarkable testimony to women’s bravery, compassion and solidarity in the harshest of conditions.” —Sunday Times (London)
“The book is proof of Gholian’s triumphant resistance against a regime that wants her silenced, and a powerful message of hope for the future.” —The Observer (London)
“Ashraf Shirazi’s narration brings quiet strength and emotional resonance to the author’s contemplations of imprisonment in Iran…Shirazi’s delivery captures each woman’s dignity, pain, and strength. The effect is a powerful picture…[with] reflective passages, storytelling, and unexpected humor.” —AudioFile
“A fighting woman cannot be imprisoned because her voice is louder than prison walls. This book is proof.” —Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner
“So many of us admire [Gholian] for fearlessly standing up to the dictatorship in Iran…A breathtaking writerly talent. Sepideh is emblematic of a generation of Iranians who refuse to give up in their quest for justice.” —Arash Azizi, author of What Iranians Want

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Author Bio: Sepideh Gholian

Author Bio: Sepideh Gholian

Sepideh Gholian is an Iranian journalist and activist, currently in Evin Prison. She was arrested in November 2018 during a strike by the workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Complex and was severely tortured in detention. In 2023, a video went viral of her removing her hijab and calling for the downfall of Khamenei.

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Available Formats : Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Runtime: 3.43
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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