- Hardcover: 488 pages
- Publisher: Park Avenue Publishers (OK) (July 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0975968300
- ISBN-13: 978-0975968307
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #887,890 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Somewhere inside this ungainly behemoth of a memoir lies an absorbing account of a middle-class girl's life in Iran. Yet only the most patient reader will follow the travails of Omid (a pseudonym meaning "lost soul") from conception into middle age. After five introductions that each repeat approximately the same point (women are ill treated in Iran), Omid launches into extensive backgrounds on both sets of grandparents; her shrewd, bigamous businessman father (whom she hates); her mother (on whom she blows hot and cold); and her brothers (her feelings range from dislike to hatred). Omid appears to be a contentious person as well as a grievance collector, and her clashes with family, friends, teachers and, later, when she emigrates to Canada, employers, seem more personal than political. The protracted detailing of grudges becomes so numbing that when genuine iniquity occurs—she claims to have been raped and briefly kidnapped—a reader's reaction is somewhat muted. In the 150-page Canadian section toward the end, Omid quarrels incessantly with her brothers (who also emigrate), becomes anorexic, has plastic surgery and is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Iran would seem to be the least of her worries. (June)
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The world has heard and seen the hordes of women swarming the streets of Iran, covered from head to toe in black chadors, shouting insults against the United States and the West. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Must Read,
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This review is from: Living in Hell: A True Odyssey of a Woman's Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forces (Hardcover)
An amazing personal account of living in a society following a despicable, barbaric religion. Omid shows how Islamic customs made life for her, her mother and other relatives extremely difficult and impossible. It is just one of the millions of stories of women suffering under the totalitarian Islamic faith.Through her long personal story, Omid shows readers how Islam abuses & degrades women, and how Muslims refuse to accept the truth that their religion is a farce and obsolete in the 21st century. The only downside to this book is that she gives leniency to Islam in stating that it needs to be reformed. No religion can be reformed. Mohammed was no prophet, but a profiteer that engaged in war, slavery, rape, pillage, racism, and pedophilia all throughout his life. Islam is not a religion of peace and must be stopped on all fronts.
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Doom and gloom in modern Iran and Canada,
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This review is from: Living in Hell: A True Odyssey of a Woman's Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forces (Hardcover)
A poorly written diatribe about a relatively miserable life and how it impacted an intelligent,paranoid young female, who boasts often, rants incessantly but does manage to paint a very bleak picture of Iran and her Shia Islamic faith. A difficult read for us, but a catharsis for her.You're in Canada now Ghaza--- get a new life!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A story of a young woman's flight from Iran,
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This review is from: Living in Hell: A True Odyssey of a Woman's Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forces (Hardcover)
Living in hell is a story which never should have taken place, but we live in a world where it did. Ghazal Omid had the strength of her convictions not only to escape a certain death sentence for herself,but now is also using her life to help others do the same. Ghazal's story isn't easy to read, but if we are to change this regime and help these poor Iranians get out from under their clothe of misery and desperation, we must not only read it, but act on it with our own voices and in ways that we may we able to. I believe in the saying "There but for the grace of God go I". Anyone of us could have lived throught this. I guarantee that after you read this book, you will never be the same. You will no longer be able to look the other way when atrocities are happening anywhere in the world, not just to the women in Iran. The courage Ghazal shows in sharing her private pain with the world to help others by getting the word out is immeasurable. This is a book that should be read, and talked about. Ghazal Omid is a talented writer, a relentless crusader for women's and political prisoner's rights.
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