Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir (No Series) by Nemat Marina

Author:Nemat, Marina [Nemat, Marina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2007-04-30T22:00:00+00:00

The following Wednesday night, I went to choir practice. Andre smiled at me from behind the organ. I stood next to a woman who had a wonderful voice. Andre came up to me after the practice. Wearing blue jeans and a plain T-shirt, I wished I had nicer clothes on. Although the hejab was mandatory and not wearing it could result in lashing and imprisonment, women could wear what they wanted underneath the hejab. When I went to church, to visit friends, or to relatives’ houses, I could take off my hejab after arriving.

“You have a beautiful voice,” Andre said to me.

“No. I was standing beside Mrs. Masoodi. She has a beautiful voice.” I laughed.

I asked him where he was originally from, and he told me both his parents were from Hungary, but he and his sister were born in Tehran. His sister was twenty-one and had recently moved to Budapest to go to university. He was twenty-two.

It was such a strange coincidence that he was Hungarian. But when I thought about it a little, I realized it wasn’t that strange. Christians were such a small minority in Iran that we were all somehow connected in one way or another.

“Would you like to learn to play the organ?” Andre asked me.

“Is it hard?”

“Not at all. I’ll teach you.”

“Okay. When do we start?”

“How about now?”

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