Gabriel García Márquez book inspires Iran's opposition movement
The Guardian / Saeed Kamali Dehghan
20-Sep-2011 (one comment)

The Nobel-prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez is revered for his evocation of a surreal and sometimes dangerous world where nothing is quite what it seems.

In this case, however, the country in question is not his native Colombia but Iran under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Copies of Márquez's 1996 work News of a Kidnapping have sold out from bookshops in Tehran this week after detained opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said the book's description of Colombian kidnappings offers an accurate reflection of his life under house arrest

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Esfand Aashena

JJJ interesting! Doesn't seem Mousavi has lost support!

by Esfand Aashena on Wed Sep 21, 2011 08:03 AM PDT

One word by Mousavi and  Gabriel García Márquez becomes a new best seller and an instant millionaire!  Millions in Tomans that is!

Hopefully the book will not be banned in Iran, although it wouldn't be surprising if it did and ammunition to ridicule Islamic Republic once again for being afraid of a book! 

Everything is sacred


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