Review | Shida Bazyar’s The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran explores the long afterlife of the Islamic Revolution
The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran is a triptych of a family caught between the burning sun of Tehran and the damp earth of Germany. It begins in 1979, when Behzad and Nahid, young and drunk on the prose of Marx and Gorky, believe they are the world’s architects. Their Leftist movement has helped topple the…