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Born in a slum, Kooshyar Karimi transformed himself into an award-winning writer as well as a successful doctor, whose conscience won't let him turn away the unmarried women who beg him to save their lives by ending pregnancies that would see them stoned to death. One of those women is Leila. She yearns to go to university, but her family forbids it. Kooshyar has rescued countless women, but Leila seeks his help for a different reason, one tha...

Whilst many stories have come out of Iran in the last few decades, nothing matches the grittiness of this portrayal of life in the crumbling alleyways and damp cellars of an Iranian slum district-the extreme poverty and desperation, and the regular betrayals and compromises, even within families, in the fight for survival. Born on the back seat of a police car in the subzero temperatures of a bleak and icy winter's night, Karimi summons extrao...

In Journey of a Thousand Storms Kooshyar Karimi, author of Leila's Secret, tells his gripping personal story of surviving prison in Iran and life as a refugee before finding success in Australia. Kooshyar Karimi had two careers in Iran, one as a doctor and one as an award-winning translator. Until he was kidnapped by the Intelligence Service. Behind his professional success, Kooshyar was a rebel on several fronts. Marginalized since boyhood as...

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Leila si presenta al dottor Karimi nel suo ambulatorio di Quchan, una città della provincia iraniana, quando nascondersi non le è più possibile. A lui basta uno sguardo per capire che la ragazza è già all'ottavo mese di gravidanza e che esiste un solo modo per salvarla. Non è la prima volta che il dottore aiuta una donna che rischia la lapidazione. Lo fa da anni mettendo in pericolo se stesso e la propria famiglia, lo fa perché antepone la vit...

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