The Bathhouse, Farnoosh Moshiri
The Bathhouse, Farnoosh Moshiri
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The Bathhouse

Author: Farnoosh Moshiri

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 3 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2007

Synopsis

In Iran, a seventeenyearold girl is arrested because of her brother's politics and imprisoned in a former bathhouse with other women captives. With intense emotion and great literary skill, Moshiri gives voice to these prisoners, exploring their torment and struggle, their courage and humanity, in the face of tyrants.

About Farnoosh Moshiri

Farnoosh Moshiri was born into a literary family in Tehran. She earned an MA in drama from the University of Iowa and returned to Iran in 1979. After refusing to sign an agreement to obey the new regime, she went underground, escaping to Afghanistan and then India. She eventually graduated from the creative writing program of the University of Houston. The author of At the Wall of the Almighty, she currently teaches at Montgomery College in Houston, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carrie on July 13, 2020

As we continue to shelter in place, I decided it was time to revisit some of my favorite books of the past. The Bathhouse was high on my list. The slim volume is set in Tehran during the fundamentalist revolution in the 80s, and hauntingly follows the wrongful arrest and forgotten imprisonment of a......more

Goodreads review by Suraia on June 19, 2017

This was a good book but i dreaded reading it. It was depressing to read about how one human can torture another. While the language was simple and touching, it would be better if the author had given a bit more insight into the characters. Overall it is a book worth reading.......more

Goodreads review by Sara on August 28, 2024

3.5⭐️s. Simple writing (and lots of spelling mistakes) but a quick glance into how quickly life changed in 1970s Iran. Heartbreaking and I wish the author gave us more......more

Goodreads review by Amber on February 20, 2023

I am indescribably sad......more

Goodreads review by Gwen on September 22, 2024

Simple writing, but heartbreaking none the less.......more

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