He Died Twice

About the Book

In a land where women are limited by rules and religion, an Iranian girl dares to love. A man with mesmerizing hazel eyes invites her to a forbidden territory. Their secret meetings are exciting and his touch takes her to the edge. Fariba knows she has to keep it all a secret. Her culture, her religion and most importantly her parents wouldn’t understand, nor allow it.

When she finds out her father has accepted a marriage proposal on her behalf, she confesses that her heart belongs to another man. But for eighteen years old fariba, the game has just begun. It is the beginning of a nightmare, a place where God fails to exist; a time when surviving is all that matters. Fariba witnesses the horror of the War as her dreams shatter and her country bleeds. Catastrophes brought by War have taken everything. Fariba’s world has changed and so has she. When she is about to lose the only thing she has, in a moment when she can risk all there is, Fariba unleashes the woman inside. She must pay a high price and the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. Her heart is an ocean which holds secrets deep enough not to surface anytime soon. In her dreams she holds on to the only man she ever loved. In her reality she longs to reunite with her daughter.

This is a life where one’s strength is put to the test repeatedly; this is a woman who won’t be forgotten.

About the Author

Born in the city of isfahan, iran, sholeh shabangiz recalls a happy childhood. Through her father “Asadollah”, Sholeh became familiar with poets and grew to love and enjoy good poetries. Later on, her mother” Forough” introduced her to literature. Sholeh got married at age nineteen and moved to the United State of America at age twenty one. Currently, sholeh lives in New York with two of her children. Her eldest lives in Los Angeles, California. Sholeh works at New York Hospital of Queens, where the whole idea of writing a book in English originated.