REVIEWS

“[B]oth a resolutely nonpartisan antirevolutionary brief and a gripping, harrowing story of personal courage and endurance.”—Booklist (starred review)

“It's hard to stop reading....Horrible as it is, you don't want to turn away from the girl's first-person nightmare. The language in The Bathhouse is simple, the dialogue taut, the tension immediate.”—Houston Chronicle

“Bernadette Dunne's narration of the young woman's ordeal is rendered poignantly. Her delivery is emotional -- the pain and despair of the characters are present in her voice in just the right amounts....the results make the book easier to listen to than it might be to read.”—AudioFile

“[T]he starkly simple tale she tells is convincing in tone and substance....Moshiri's impressive novel works at two levels, telling a compelling story while bearing witness to a brutal period in Iranian history.”—Publishers Weekly

“The theme of the book…is that tyranny doesn't need a reason to torture and persecute the innocent....Some of the torture scenes are graphic, but there is a great sense of humanity and caring in the face of unreasonable treatment and abuse....the insight of the book is universal. Recommended for advanced students and adults.”—KLIATT

“I feel that if a class is studying totalitarian regimes, or the Holocaust, or how a dictator or prison guard intimidates his (or her) victims, then a teacher might recommend that students take a look at it. However, it is not for young teens under any circumstances. Ages 14 and up.”—Children’s Literature

“[A] gut-wrenching, eye-opening novel. The Bathhouse shows what happens when ideology runs amok. It honors the humanity and sacrifice of the victims.”—Tacoma News Tribune

FARNOOSH MOSHIRI was born into a literary family in Tehran. She earned an M.A. in drama from the University of Iowa and returned to Iran in 1979. After refusing to sign an agreement to obey the new regime, she went underground, escaping to Afghanistan and then India. She eventually graduated from the creative writing program of the University of Houston. The author of At the Wall of the Almighty, she currently teaches at Montgomery College in Houston, Texas.

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