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The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club: Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes Audiobook
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How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a tres leches cake. In Iran’s prisons, women endure horrors: they are beaten, interrogated, and humiliated in a thousand ways. Even a whisper to a fellow inmate can be punished. Yet—in spite of anything and everything—they resist: they bake. They console each other, cry together, dance together.
Sepideh Gholian, in prison since 2018, bakes scones for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s daughter, a pumpkin pie for Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, madeleines for Marzieh Amiri, serving time for a May Day demonstration in 2019. The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club is a call to stand up for Woman, Life, Freedom by a woman still fighting for a free Iran.
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“It is sometimes hard to believe Sepideh Gholian is still under thirty since she has accomplished so much as a labor journalist and civic activist. So many of us admire her for fearlessly standing up to the dictatorship in Iran… A breathtaking writerly talent. Sepideh is emblematic of a generation of Iranians who refuse to give up in their quest for justice.”
— Arash Azizi, author of What Iranians Want
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“My heart broke while reading this book, but it also gave me hope. I read this book filled with outrage against the system that has put Sepideh Gholian and so many like her in jail, torturing them, killing them. But I was filled with hope, amazed by and thankful for those like her, telling the story. They are our beloved guardians of truth.”
— Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
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About Sepideh Gholian
Sepideh Gholian is an Iranian journalist and activist, currently in Evin Prison. She was arrested on 18 November, 2018 during a strike by the workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Complex, and was severely tortured in detention. In 2023, a video of her removing her hijab and calling for the downfall of Khamenei went viral.