City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran
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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 and reveals what it is to live, love and survive in one of the world's most repressive regimes.
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Ramita Navai's City of Lies is gripping, a dark, delicious unveiling of the secret decadent life of Islamic Tehran, deeply researched yet as exciting as a novelA timely and beautifully written insight into the lives of Tehranis - SUNDAY TIMESGripping . . . The chapters read like utterly compelling short tales, catapulting us imaginatively into the hearts and minds of people we feel we know, even though their lives are so very "other" - DAILY MAILFast-paced and saturated with detail each chapter describes a Tehrani whose life the treacherous, glittering city has disfigured in some way ... extraordinary - FINANCIAL TIMES
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