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Lying in Tehran is about survival.
Welcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of subterfuge. Here is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls' virginity and homemade porn is sold in the sprawling bazaars; a place where ordinary people are forced to lead extraordinary lives. Based on extensive interviews, ''City of Lies'' chronicles the lives of eight men and women drawn from across the spectrum of Iranian society (including an aging socialite, a porn star, a volunteer religious policeman who undergoes a sex change, and a dutiful housewife who files for divorce) and reveals what it is to live, love and survive in one of the world's most repressive regimes.
Ramita Navai is a British-Iranian journalist and writer who has reported from over twenty different countries, including Pakistan, northern Iraq and Iran. While working as the Tehran correspondent for The Times from 2003 to 2006, Ramita Navai began interviewing ordinary people about their lives, and she continued to collect these stories long after most foreign media had been banned from Iran.
Paperback, 320 pages, Orig.Published 2014, This Edition Published August 2015
Author: Ramita Navai.