The Moving Prison: A Novel
“A fine novel of both the triumph and defeat of the human spirit, giving us yet another parallel to the Holocaust story and to all tales of religious persecution.”
Booklist, American Library Association
Product Details
- Title : The Moving Prison: A Novel
- Authors:
- Mirza, William
- Lemmons, Thom
- Publisher: David C Cook
- Publication Date: 2012
- ISBN: 9780781410038
William Mirza was born in northwestern Iran
in 1904 and emigrated to the United States in 1958. Inspired
by the literary style of Charles Dickens, William decided as a
young man that someday he would be a writer. Twenty-six years
after emigrating to the United States, at age eighty and with only
twenty percent of his vision left, he decided to write a novel.
After thirty-nine rejections, The Moving Prison (formerly
titled Passport) was published with the help of Thom Lemmons
five months before William died at age ninety. He is survived by
two sons and a daughter who live in California and Colorado.
Thom Lemmons is the author of twelve works of fiction, including
the Christy Award–winning King’s Ransom (with Jan Beazley)
and, most recently, Blameless, a modern-day retelling of the
Job story. Thom is the managing editor at Texas A&M University
Press in College Station.