Books that changed me: Kooshyar Karimi

Updated May 12 2015 - 5:08pm, first published May 3 2015 - 12:15am
Dr Kooshyar Karimi - access to books was not easy during his young life in Iran. Photo: James Brickwood
Dr Kooshyar Karimi - access to books was not easy during his young life in Iran. Photo: James Brickwood
Dr Kooshyar Karimi - access to books was not easy during his young life in Iran. Photo: James Brickwood
Dr Kooshyar Karimi - access to books was not easy during his young life in Iran. Photo: James Brickwood
Dr Kooshyar Karimi - access to books was not easy during his young life in Iran. Photo: James Brickwood
Dr Kooshyar Karimi - access to books was not easy during his young life in Iran. Photo: James Brickwood

Kooshyar Karimi is the author of Leila's Secret (Penguin), a best-selling memoir about his work as a doctor in Iran, where he gave women illegal abortions to save them from stoning to death for having sex outside marriage. He was arrested, tortured and escaped to Australia, where he works as a doctor in Sydney.

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