Overview
How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a tres leches cake. In Iran's prisons, women endure horrors: they are beaten, interrogated, and humiliated in a thousand ways. Even a whisper to a fellow inmate can be punished. Yet--in spite of anything and everything--they resist: they bake. They console each other, cry together, dance together. Sepideh Gholian, in prison since 2018, bakes scones for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's daughter, a pumpkin pie for Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, and madeleines for Marzieh Amiri, serving time for a May Day demonstration in 2019. The Evin Prison Bakers' Club is a call to stand up for women, life, and freedom, by a woman still fighting for a free Iran.
Full Product Details
Author: Sepideh Gholian ,
Hessam Ashrafi ,
Ashraf Shirazi
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9798228363182
Publication Date: 27 May 2025
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Reviews
""A fighting woman cannot be imprisoned because her voice is louder than prison walls. This book is proof."" -- ""Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner"" ""So many of us admire [Gholian] for fearlessly standing up to the dictatorship in Iran...A breathtaking writerly talent. Sepideh is emblematic of a generation of Iranians who refuse to give up in their quest for justice."" -- ""Arash Azizi, author of What Iranians Want""
""It is sometimes hard to believe Sepideh Gholian is still under thirty since she has accomplished so much as a labor journalist and civic activist. So many of us admire her for fearlessly standing up to the dictatorship in Iran... A breathtaking writerly talent. Sepideh is emblematic of a generation of Iranians who refuse to give up in their quest for justice."" -- ""Arash Azizi, author of What Iranians Want"" ""My heart broke while reading this book, but it also gave me hope. I read this book filled with outrage against the system that has put Sepideh Gholian and so many like her in jail, torturing them, killing them. But I was filled with hope, amazed by and thankful for those like her, telling the story. They are our beloved guardians of truth."" -- ""Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran""
Author Information
Sepideh Gholian is an Iranian journalist and activist, currently in Evin Prison. She was arrested in November, 2018, during a strike by the workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Complex and was severely tortured in detention. In 2023, a video went viral of her removing her hijab and calling for the downfall of Khamenei.
