Images Courtesy of Cover and illustrations by Ole Dammegård

This book is a true and emotional description of real people in an improbable world full of conflicts.

One day in 1984, Ole Damme- gard’s everyday life became too humdrum, so he prepared an old bicycle and started a trip into the vast unknown. His intention was to learn to live in the present. Initially he focussed on South Africa but unforeseen circumstances took him into wartorn Iran.

What happened here changed Ole’s life. His entire world, his viewpoints and values were turned upside down and the emotional turbu- lence he experienced tore down his inner walls leaving him naked and vulnerable like an open wound.

After a tragic murder, the situation became unbearable for one of his Iranian friends, so Ole ventured everything to help his friend get away and together they made a dramatic escape from Iran via for- mer Soviet and East Germany in a desperate attempt to reach final freedom.

I finished reading this today, and It’s one Not to be missed!

I learned a lot with the interesting history included throughout the pages of the book, combined with my own political beliefs, and the trials and tribulations of a friendship in a less than friendly world.  I also felt like I was right there with Ole and Milad, undertaking my own adventure, yet safely snuggled at home here in the US.   What freedoms we take for granted here in the West.  I can’t imagine living with what I will label “the anxieties” they do on a daily basis.  Yet, there is a lot to be learned and understood about their lifestyles.

I never would have guessed all the string of events that Milan and his family, specifically Mohsen, went through to achieve political asylum.  One moment I would be cheering with them, thinking ok, everything is well now.  Only to find, scrolling the pages, that they would encounter yet another challenge.

This book is very well written, and a page turner!  I took from this book the amazing outlook you can still have even after years of oppression and unjust.

The ending left me hopeful, and glad I was able to share this heartfelt adventure!

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