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Memoir Chronicles an Unlikely Sojourn to Christianity That Began in IranPolitical writer Sohrab Ahmari tells his unforgettable
conversion story in From Fire By Water
Contact: Kevin Wandra, 404-788-1276, KWandra@CarmelCommunications.com
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7, 2019 /Christian
Newswire/ -- Sohrab Ahmari was an Iranian teenager living under the
ayatollahs when he decided that there was no God. Nearly two decades later and
as an American citizen, he would be baptized and confirmed into the Roman
Catholic Church.
In FROM FIRE BY WATER, he recounts this unlikely journey, from the
strident Marxism and atheism of a youth misspent on both sides of the Atlantic
to a moral and spiritual awakening prompted by the Mass. At once a young
intellectual's finely crafted self-portrait and a life story at the intersection
of the great ideas and events of our time, the book marks the debut of a
compelling new Catholic voice.
Ahmari is currently the op-ed editor at the New York Post but
previously served as a columnist and editor with the Wall Street Journal
opinion pages in New York and London, and as senior writer at Commentary
magazine. FROM FIRE BY WATER illuminates his skill as an expert
story-teller, delivering the reader an unforgettable experience.
Ahmari expertly weaves the tales of his unique childhood in Iran, his move
across the ocean to the United States, and his terrible life choices into a book
reminiscent of the great Saint Augustine's own Confessions. FROM FIRE BY
WATER honestly, and sometimes painfully, reveals that Ahmari clung to his
indulgences and self-fulfillment rather obstinately before he was able to
surrender himself fully to the truths of Catholic Christianity.
"FROM FIRE BY WATER is not so much about Sohrab Ahmari but about the
work of divine grace in his soul disposed to hear God's voice calling him with
immeasurable and enduring love," said Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke. "It is the
story of the journey of faith in which it is always God who first calls us to
believe in Him and place all our trust in Him. The same humility before God,
which disposed the author to respond to God's call, permits him to give a most
compelling and indeed inspiring account of how He came to know God, to love Him
and to serve Him with all his heart. The author's extraordinary gift for writing
truly approaches, as best as one can at any given time, a true account of the
incomparable beauty of the reality he recounts."
For more information, to request a review copy or to schedule an interview with
Sohrab Ahmari, please contact Kevin Wandra (404-788-1276 or
KWandra@CarmelCommunications.com) of Carmel Communications.