The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran - Shida Bazyar Frankl was uniquely able to

Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in in the notorious concentration camp

returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier

the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life

known to his few friends as Gafitas

but his political activism in one of the medieval world's wealthiest cities led to his death in exile

The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran - Shida Bazyar Frankl was uniquely able to1979. Behzad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shahs expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the courageous, intelligent Nahid. 1989. Nahid lives her new life in West Germany with Behzad. With their young children, they spend hour after hour in front of the radio, hoping for news from others who went into hiding after the