Things I've Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter

By Azar Nafisi

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Things I've Been Silent About is a 2008 memoir by Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. She writes about growing up in Iran, her difficult relationship with her mother and her bond with her father, a former mayor of Tehran who was jailed, set against Iran's political upheavals from the 1950s to the revolution.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “Nafisi essentially gives the reader two great stories for the price of one.”