"No matter how I would reach out in the years to

come--sometimes even desperately--to find an identity

and purpose of my own, I would remain inextricably

tied to my twin brother. I would marry more than

once. I would have children of my own. I would work

for my country in ways unheard of for a woman of my

generation. I would even go into exile (three times)

alone. But always the center of my existence was, and

is, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi."

Here, in what is bound to be one of the most

controversial and talked about books of the

decade, Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of the Shah

of Iran, tells the extraordinary story of her life

and of her country. For the first time she

records her views--based on personal experi-

ences and inside information as only she could

know them--of the events which surrounded

the removal of the Shah, the take-over by the

Khomeini regime, and the international furor

which resulted from her brother s treatment at

New York Hospital.

In FACES IN A MIRROR, she recalls her

fiercely determined rise to independence and

political activity in a country that traditionally

has granted women few rights and little free-

dora--some even came to call her " the real

power behind the throne." Now she recounts

the historic events she has witnessed and been

part of for four decades since the time of the

Teheran Conference in 1943: