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The Evin Prison Bakers' Club : surviving Iran's most notorious prisons in 16 recipes
Gholian, Sepideh2025
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How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a tres leches cake. In Iran's prisons, women endure horrors: they are beaten, interrogated, and humiliated in a thousand ways. Even a whisper to a fellow inmate can be punished. Yet - in spite of anything and everything - they resist: they bake. They console each other, cry together, dance together. Sepideh Gholian, in prison since 2018, bakes scones for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's daughter, a pumpkin pie for Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, madeleines for Marzieh Amiri, serving time for a May Day demonstration in 2019. The book is a call to stand up for women, life, freedom by a woman still fighting for a free Iran.
Main title:
The Evin Prison Bakers' Club : surviving Iran's most notorious prisons in 16 recipes / Sepideh Gholian ; translated by Hessam Ashrafi.
Author:
Gholian, Sepideh, authorAshrafi, Hessam, translator
Imprint:
London : Oneworld, 2025.
Collation:
208 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Persian.
ISBN:
9781836430308 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
641.815641.815 GHOL
Language:
EnglishPersian
BRN:
5985013
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