{"product_id":"shirin-100-years-rooted-and-uprooted","title":"Shirin: 100 Years Rooted and Uprooted","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Audiobook\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA multi-generational literary audiobook tracing one Persian family across a century, exploring how prejudice is quietly inherited, shaped, and sustained through generations. \n\nShirin: A Hundred Years, Rooted and Uprooted traces four generations of one Persian family across a century of upheaval—from the streets of Kashan to the prisons of pre-revolutionary Iran and beyond. At its center is Shirin, whose life becomes a lens through which inherited prejudice, faith, silence, and belonging quietly unfold.\n\nBeginning long before the Iranian Revolution, the book asks how intolerance takes root—not only through politics or religion, but through what families teach, what societies normalize, and what remains unspoken.\n\nTranslated from the original Farsi by the author's daughters, Farnaz and Mehr, and narrated by Mehr Mansuri, Shirin is both a daughter's act of preservation and a mother's enduring reflection on the deeper roots of human division.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDetails\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Shahin D. Ehsan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNarrator:\u003c\/strong\u003e narrated by her daughter Mehr Mansuri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRuntime:\u003c\/strong\u003e 08:33:45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781971980331\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Tehran in 1941, Shahin grew up during a period of profound social and political change in Iran. Raised in a family shaped by both Islamic scholarship and spiritual inquiry, her early life exposed her to questions of belief, justice, and the quiet forces that shape human behavior across generations.\n\nIn childhood, her family embraced the Bahá'í Faith at a time when doing so carried profound personal and social consequences. These experiences would later deepen her lifelong interest in the roots of prejudice, the transmission of belief, and the moral responsibilities individuals carry within society.\n\nYears before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Shahin sensed the growing instability around her. After witnessing a troubling incident in her own household and hearing warnings that revealed a dangerous shift taking hold in society, she sought to better understand the political use of religion and the growing tensions unfolding around her. Trusting her instincts, she made the difficult decision to relocate her family abroad while her children were already studying in England—an act of foresight that would ultimately spare them from much of the upheaval that followed. Though the family later lost businesses, property, and much of the life they had built in Iran, Shahin remained committed to understanding not only what had happened, but why.\n\nAfter eventually settling in the United States, she devoted much of her life to writing, service, and community-building, while continuing to reflect deeply on the human causes of division, violence, and intolerance.\n\nInspired decades later by reports of sectarian violence in the Middle East, Shahin began writing what would become her final work: Shirin: A Hundred Years, Rooted and Uprooted. Spanning four generations from Kashan to California, the book traces how prejudice is quietly inherited through family, culture, faith, and silence—and how understanding might begin to undo it.\n\nTranslated from the original Farsi by her daughters and narrated by one of them, Shirin stands as both a literary work and a deeply personal meditation on history, identity, and the roots of human division.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LINDIE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48101816008855,"sku":"9781971980331","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/9540\/8023\/files\/9781971980331.jpg?v=1785944451","url":"https:\/\/lindie.net\/products\/shirin-100-years-rooted-and-uprooted","provider":"Lantern Indie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}