Revolution Street

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Amir Cheheltan's firebrand tale of power, corruption, and love, set against the roiling aftermath of the Islamic Revolution, opens an unforgettable trilogy of novels about everyday lives in contemporary Tehran. Fattah is a backstreet surgeon specialising in hymen repair -though it was working as an executioner in the notorious Evin prison that made him rich. When a beautiful young girl, Shahrzad, lands on his operating table, he becomes dangerously infatuated. Undeterred that she is already promised by her family to another man, he sets out to win her by any means. Robbed of his bride, the jilted and fanatical fiance attempts to use the regime's apparatus to win her back, a mission that takes him deep into Tehran's underworld of criminals and provocateurs. But once the powers of the state are unleashed, events gather a fateful momentum until none can escape their explosive collision.

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A classic of world literature.

A vivid, exciting and nuanced portrait of post-revolutionary Tehran.

Rarely has a novel so exposed the moral erosion of Iran. The example of two henchmen of the mullahs regime vying for the same woman, the beautiful Shahrzad, depicts what remains of the ideals of the Islamic revolution of 1979: fear, bigotry, and pure violence.

Author Bio

A rising star in Iranian literature, Amir Cheheltan has published numerous novels and volumes of short stories in Iran, which have all undergone a number of revisions and re-publications due to censorship. His writings have been translated and published in ten languages. He currently supervises the literature workshop of the Karnameh Art & Cultural Centre in Tehran.