For Every Person You Kill

By Sahar Delijani

From the author of internationally bestselling Children of the Jacaranda Tree, an intimate examination of life after political imprisonment in post-revolutionary Iran...

Tehran, 1980s. After four years of confinement, political dissidents Azar and Ismael are released from Evin Prison. They have not seen their daughter, Neda, since she was an infant born within the walls of Evin--she is a stranger to them both, a reminder of all Azar and Ismael have lost, and all they must struggle to re-gain as they process the brutality they have been subjected to.

Manhattan, 2026. Neda, now in her forties, grapples with the weight of the literary success she's received by writing about her parents' lives. As a U.S.-Israeli war erupts across her homeland, Neda is thrust into a crisis that threatens to unravel everything she has built. With her parents trapped in Iran and cut off from communication, Neda is left searching for answers, questioning where she belongs.

As warm-blooded and intimate as it is politically engaged, For Every Person You Kill asks difficult questions about the power and limits of storytelling when confronted with war and persecution: is bearing witness enough? And what right does one have to tell the story of a country and a people they have left behind?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1685892892
• ISBN13: 9781685892890
• Release Date: May 2027
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.