I Confess, Revelations in Exile – Kooshyar Karimi candlestick No other occupied country in

No other occupied country in Europe suffered from German depredation as Poland did and no other population was as traumatised and brutalised as the Poles

an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past

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It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers

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I Confess, Revelations in Exile – Kooshyar Karimi candlestick No other occupied country inWhilst many stories have come out of Iran in the last few decades, nothing matches the grittiness of this portrayal of life in the crumbling alleyways and damp cellars of an Iranian slum district The extreme poverty and desperation, and the regular betrayals and compromises, even within families, in the fight for survival. Born on the back seat of a police car in the subzero temperatures of a bleak and icy winters night, Karimi summons extraordinary