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  Zahra's Paradise (Hardback) By (author) Amir, Illustrated by Khalil

  

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  Short Description for Zahra's Paradise Set in the aftermath of Iran's fraudulent elections of 2009, "Zahra's Paradise "is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone. What's keeping his memory from being obliterated is not the law. It is the grit and guts of his mother, who refuses to surrender her son to fate, and the tenacity of his brother, a blogger, who fuses ...
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  • Publisher: FIRST SECOND
  • Published: 16 September 2011
  • Format: Hardback 224 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Graphic Novels: Literary & Memoirs
  • ISBN 13: 9781596436428 ISBN 10: 1596436425
  • Sales rank: 98,252

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Full description for Zahra's Paradise

• Set in the aftermath of Iran's fraudulent elections of 2009, "Zahra's Paradise "is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone. What's keeping his memory from being obliterated is not the law. It is the grit and guts of his mother, who refuses to surrender her son to fate, and the tenacity of his brother, a blogger, who fuses tradition and technology to explore and explode the void in which Mehdi has vanished. "Zahra's Paradise "weaves together fiction and real people and events. As the world witnessed the aftermath of Iran's fraudulent elections, through YouTube videos, on Twitter, and in blogs, this story came into being. The global response to this gripping tale has been passionate--an echo of the global outcry during the political upheaval of the summer of 2009. "Zahra's Paradise "is a first on the internet, a first for graphic novels, and a first in the history of political dissidence. "Zahra's Paradise "is being serialized online at zahrasparadise.com. "Zahra's Paradise" is a Publishers Weekly Best Comics title for 2011.