Description
Author: Farmanfarmaian, Manucher & Roxane
Publisher: Prion
Place: London
Cover: hardback with dust jacket
Condition: As New
Category: History- Middle-East
Year: 1997
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo
Description: xxv + 514pp., b/w pls., maps, appendix, index, Prince Manucher Farmanfarmaian is a scion of Iran’s most aristocratic family. He was the Shah’s oil minister and fled Iran when his entire family was banned by Khomeini. Born into his father’s harem, with 35 brothers & sisters, one of whom married the head of Iran’s Communist Party, another killed by the Shah, He was the principal government negotiator with the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company until its nationalisation by Mossadeq (Farmanfarmaian’s cousin) in 1951. Farmanfarmaian and his journalist daughter Roxane have written a memoir which is also a history of modern Iran, told by one of the principal members of the establishment�
