An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah: A Memoir
by Farah Pahlavi
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Her story began like a fairytale. At the age of 21, Farah Diba married the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi. Her coronation as empress of Iran was covered by the world's press and overnight she became an international celebrity. Her early years were marked by a loving marriage and the raising of four children, but they were signs of a division approaching. Twenty years later demonstrations and riots caused the Shah and his family to flee the country. An intimate view of a time of show more upheaval and a poweful human document revealing a nation's epic struggle. show lessTags
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A very heartfelt memoir. Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran, writes the story of her life with such grace and dignity. It's heartbreaking to read of her husband's final illness and of the way he was treated by the world's leaders, positioned and moved as a chess piece from country to country. Farah writes of her "enduring love" from the moment she met him. It's a fascinating lesson in Iranian history.
After reading the book, I recommend watching the documentary "The Queen and I", which follows Farah and tells her story.
After reading the book, I recommend watching the documentary "The Queen and I", which follows Farah and tells her story.
a moving honest book about the former empress of iran, and her life as wife to the shah, and then her life after his death, it covers the years of her childhood in Iran, her marriage to the shah, and her life since his death in the united states
Just for curiosity. Tragic destiny for this royal family.
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Bastei Lübbe Taschenbuch (61575)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Erinnerungen
- Original title
- Mémoires
- Original publication date
- 2003
- People/Characters
- Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi; Farah Pahlavi
- Important places
- Iran
- Epigraph
- "Remember its flight, The bird is mortal" - Forough Farrokhzad
- Dedication
- To the Iranian people.
To my children.
For the love my my king. - First words
- When I think of that morning in January 1979, I feel that heart-wrenching grief again in all its intensity.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I know that light will triumph over darkness and Iran will rise from her ashes.
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