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The passages highlight motherhood, politics, love, and sisterhood in the former, rooted in the author’s family history, while the latter is presented as an unforgettable memoir focused on survival, faith, and inner peace amid imprisonment. Reviews emphasize intimate storytelling, moral courage, and the human cost behind major 20th-century upheavals in Iran and beyond.","Praise for Mistress of the Persian Boarding House  \n“Motherhood, politics, love, and sisterhood are transformative forces in this compelling story, based on the author ’s grandmother. Mesmerizing and intimate, this novel sweeps you away into a past that seems even more relevant today, and with one of my favourite themes: women helping other women. A gripping must-read for our times.”  \n—Donna Jones Alward, bestselling author of When the World Fell Silent and Ship of Dreams  \n“Nemat fully inhabits the heart, mind, and soul of her Russian grandmother in order to re-imagine her flight from revolutionary 1917 St. Petersburg to exile in Tehran. From the childhood delight of catching snowflakes with her tongue to the terror of negotiating for life with a rapist at gunpoint, here is a master storyteller moving seamlessly from memoir to historic fiction in an epic tale of family upheaval.”  \n—Roxana Spicer, bestselling author of The Traitor ’s Daughter“The question is how to live with grace in a world of torment. I was enchanted by Nemat’s characters, who manage to create family and love in the loss and alienation of exile. Set in Iran and Russia, this timely novel gives us insight into turbulent politics and how women survive. It is a history of the soul in miniature. It is a beautiful read.”  \n—Kim Echlin, author of Speak, Silence  \n“A sweeping yet intimate story about the human cost at the heart of some of recent history’s most violent and devastating events. Written in…beautiful and tender prose, I could not put this down. It is an extraordinary novel, one  \nof strength, resilience, and the most incredible spirit. Historical, and yet extremely relevant to modern times.”  \n—Lori Inglis Hall, bestselling author of The Shock of the Light  \n“Mistress of the Persian Boarding House reads as a deeply personal conversation with a long-lost soulmate caught in the whirlwind of the tumultuous and turbulent 20th century.…This is an uplifting and heartwarming story about refusing to give up hope and drown in despair, about maintaining humanity and kindness against the backdrop of unimaginable horrors.”  \n—Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian opposition leader, author, historian, and former political prisoner  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPraise for Prisoner of Tehran  \n“An unforgettable memoir. Haunted by her lost friends and by her betrayal of them, Nemat tells her story without messages and with no sense of heroism.”  \n—Booklist (starred review)  \n“Nemat’s story is a page-turner…a book which bears witness, which serves as a prism through which the experiences of a horrific past are viewed from a later calmer perspective. The memoir, a catharsis for Nemat, is a revelation for the reader, a moving and thoughtful book few will want to miss.”  \n—The London Free Press  \n“The story of Nemat’s unlikely survival is breathtakingly real…It is an act of bravery, this book, as well as compassion. Her words, well wrought and heartfelt, expose her shocking dilemma and the terrible system that tried to defile her.”  \n—The Globe and Mail  \n“The story of her journey to freedom is extraordinary. Nemat’s story is a complex mix of light and darkness, love and violence—of human paradoxes that defy simplistic labels of good and evil.”  \n—Quill & Quire  \n“Nemat’s story is not so much a political history lesson as it is a memoir of faith and love, a protest against violence that cannot be silenced. Following Nemat as she follows her intuition through these treacherous events is like watching a stalk of grass that repeatedly bends without breaking through the  \nwind and rain of a violent storm only to rise and stretch toward the sun once more. Her persistence in standing for goodness is a lesson for us all.”  \n—The Christian Science Monitor  \n“Prisoner of Tehran is one of the finest [memoirs] ever written by a Canadian. 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