My Life as a Traitor by Zarah Ghahramani with Robert Hilman. Published in 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 36 Soho Square, London WID 3QY; website: www.bloomsbury.com. Pp: 249. Price: £ 7.99.
Zarah Ghahramani and Robert Hilman: chronicling captivity, cruelty
Zarah Ghahramani’s My Life as a Traitor is a compelling account of her traumatic imprisonment in Iran’s Evin Prison. The memoir is co-authored by Robert Hilman, who has written several novels, poetry and short fiction. He won the Australian National Biography Award in 2004 for his memoir The Boy in the Green Suit. Born in 1981 to an upper middle-class family in......