Tehran's unlikely bestseller
Dave Monroe
against.the.dave at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 11:12:13 CDT 2011
Guess which author has a top-selling book around here; everyone seems
to want a copy. The Supreme Leader has a new book out with the catchy
title, 'Movement of Science Production', but I gather sales for that
are only lukewarm. The top-selling author isn't President
Ahmadinejad, who I recently interviewed. In fact, it's not any Iranian
at all. Instead, it's a Colombian - Nobel Laureate Gabriel García
Márquez. He hasn't published a book in years. But back in 1996 he
wrote News of a Kidnapping.
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http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/23/zakaria-irans-most-popular-book/
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