Rosewater: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


On one level, Rosewater, is an informative review of Iran's political history. I haven't seen the movie, and I wonder if the history lesson was as clearly shown as it was in the book.

On the deepest level, it is a gripping tribute to Maziar Bahari on his journey to freedom and his courageous family, friends and peers who never gave up the fight to get him released from Evin, the notorious Iranian prison.

It is heart-wrenching; however, it provides insight into a plausible future where the democratic impulses of an increasingly more informed youth might have some influence on the totalitarian government. One can only hope so, as I can't imagine being young and being so very repressed.

It's a very good read -- it makes one think about what it means to be free.



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