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A review by chyneyee
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai
3.0
https://chyneyee.com/2017/02/09/city-of-lies-love-sex-death-and-the-search-for-truth-in-tehran-ramita-navai/
The history and politics of the country were strongly engaged in this book. I trust the author has sufficient knowledge in those areas but putting them in words might not be her strength. Sometimes, I’m not sure whether the complexity lies on the character’s life or how the story being told. I tend to lose the direction of the story easily as there were too many political and historical explanations involved in each story. I would prefer the author includes a mixture of positive and negative side of the city instead of just only focusing on the dark side.
The history and politics of the country were strongly engaged in this book. I trust the author has sufficient knowledge in those areas but putting them in words might not be her strength. Sometimes, I’m not sure whether the complexity lies on the character’s life or how the story being told. I tend to lose the direction of the story easily as there were too many political and historical explanations involved in each story. I would prefer the author includes a mixture of positive and negative side of the city instead of just only focusing on the dark side.