Even After All This Time by Afschineh Latifi

In the richly evocative tradition of the bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran, this is a story of a family that had the courage to dream impossible dreams and to make them come true against impossible odds. Out on their own, Afschineh and her sister, Afsaneh, were forced to become strong young women before they'd even had a childhood.Įven After All This Time is a story of hope and heartache, a story of a family torn apart for six harrowing years, and finally coming together to rebuild in America. Latifi made a wrenching decision: to send her daughters, ages ten and eleven, to the west, splitting up the family until they could safely reunite. A depiction of life after the Iranian Revolution will invite inevitableand unfavorablecomparison with Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran. Fearing for the safety of her children, Mrs.

But in February, 1979, Colonel Latifi was arrested by members of the newly installed Khomeini regime, and publicly pilloried as an 'Enemy of God.' Some months later, after having been shunted from one prison cell to another, and without benefit of a legitimate trial, Colonel Latifi was summarily executed. Their father, a self-made man, had worked his way up from nothing to become a colonel in the Shah's army, and their mother, a woman of equally modest roots, had made a career for herself as a respected schoolteacher. Growing up in Tehran in the 1970s, Afschineh Latifi and her sister and two brothers enjoyed a life of luxury and privilege. The book was translated into Spanish and released in Australia, Spain and the UK.Extra shipping charges may apply to this bookĪt the age of ten, a young Iranian girl witnesses the horror of her father's execution and escapes the revolution with her sister. The book was published by Regan Books in hard cover and later also released in paperback. In 2005, she also became a published author with her book Even After All This Time chronicling her family’s plight after the Islamic Revolution in Iran. She is admitted to the new York and California State bars as well as the Southern and Eastern District Courts of New York, Central District of California and the U.S Supreme Court. She obtained a law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1992. In Even After All This Time (Regan Books, 39.95), Afschineh Latifi tells of her. She attended Old Dominion University where she graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. Azadeh Moaveni, left, and Afschineh Latifi, right: unveiling Iran. She is currently a partner at the law firm of Tucker & Latifi, LLP where she specializes in intellectual property. Growing up in Tehran in the 1970s, Afschineh Latifi and her sister and two. She immigrated to Austria in 1981 and then a year later to the United States where she attended school. Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution and Leaving Iran. Afschineh Latifi is an Iranian American attorney practicing in New York City.

Even After All This Time by Afschineh Latifi