An Iranian at Home and Abroad

What happens when freedom isn’t a birth right—but something to be fought for at every border?

This isn’t your typical travel memoir. Told through the eyes of an Iranian writer who never had the luxury of taking liberty for granted, this is a raw, gripping and darkly funny account of life on the move—from the repressive streets of Iran to the harsh realities of exile across Europe and Asia.

With remarkable candour and biting humour, the author recounts brushes with police, border crossings without visas, time behind bars, and survival in cultures where he was seen as the outsider. One moment he’s dodging a public execution, the next he’s navigating loneliness and fleeting intimacy in Bulgaria, or enduring modern-day servitude in Japan.

But amid the danger and displacement, there's always a flash of wit, a spark of defiance, and a brutally honest perspective on the absurdities of power, privilege and life at the margins. For readers of The Ungrateful Refugee and Prisoners of Geography, this is a page-turning travelogue with a conscience—equal parts tragic, comic, and unforgettable.