A review by eviereads124
Rosewater: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari, Aimee Molloy

5.0

An absolutely brilliant story of an Iranian man who immigrated to Canada at a young age and subsequently settled in London, and who went to cover Iran’s presidential election in 2009, leaving behind his pregnant fiancee. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three months in Iran’s most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knew only by his smell: Rosewater. This book shows the ridiculousness and paranoia surrounding Iran at the time (and still now) towards journalists and westerners, mistaking them for spies (thinking of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe). It has also been made into a film if you would rather watch that as the book is a hard read with a lot of history and politics.