Former Iranian prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, who is under house arrest for his opposition of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, recently encouraged his daughter to read Gabriel García Márquez’s News of a Kidnapping to better understand his “situation in captivity.” Since the meeting, word of Mousavi’s book recommendation has “spread quickly across Iran’s huge online community, prompting hundreds of opposition supporters to seek out the book.”
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