Waiting in Iran

In this short and very readable book Ryszard Kapuściński
offers us lively, snapshot descriptions of scenes from
the life and 37-year reign of the last King of Kings
together with a dramaturgical perspective on the revolution
that put an end to it. Beginning with a reporter’s brief
impressions of life in Iran shortly after the revolution
(“Cards, Faces, Fields of Flowers”), Kapuicifiski takes us through the life and troubled last years of...