Kissing the Sword

A moving account of life as a political prisoner in post-revolutionary Iran from the acclaimed Iranian author of Women Without Men .   Shahrnush Parsipur was a successful writer and television producer in her native Iran until the Revolution of 1979. Soon after seizing control, the Islamist government began detaining its citizens—and Parsipur found herself incarcerated without charges.   Kissing the Sword captures the surreal experience of serving time as a political prisoner and witne