Download or read book A Good Place to Die written by James Buchan and published by Harvill Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Pitt, a 19-year-old drop out, has arrived in Isfahan. He has an idea he wants to be a hippie. Passing himself off as a graduate, he becomes a teacher of English. It is 1974 and Iran is changing, with the forces of religious conservatism and of liberal reform on a collision course. Amidst all this, Pitt falls madly and dangerously in love with Shirin, one of his students. A Good Place to Die tells the extraordinary story of what happens to a country in the grip of the mullahs and to a couple swept up in its history. It is a love story of the most tender and original kind, which describes the complications of a marriage between two very different cultures. It is also a compelling political thriller in which Pitt is drawn into the turbulent events in Iran that endanger both his marriage and his life.