Thiensville, WI Author Publishes New Book

Purgatory of the Body, a new book by Shahryar Cohanzad, has been released by RoseDog Books.

This work is by no means a surgeon's medical report on transgenderism, its characteristics, or surgical procedures. Rather, these poignant memoirs reveal the harshest realities of transgender individuals' lives inside Iran.

At times heart wrenching, and at others heartwarming, Dr. Cohanzad reflects with a humane and intimate touch, the tribulations of his many patients whose lives he rescued. Amongst them animated accounts of a father murdering his own child, a rape survivor becoming a successful news anchor, a highly paid glamorous fashion model, determining factors for a surgeon to get involved in treatments of these people, and a big shot executive suffering transgenderism.

Most astounding is the convoluted story of two transsexuals unexpectedly crossing paths into wedlock, simultaneously seeking their true gender identities, and the enormous confusion for their children in the distortion of the father-mother figure! A Mafia-like tale about a tremendously aggressive truck driver making a fortune, a failed love story and the mystic "dualism of GOOD-EVIL, LIGHT-DARKNESS, LOVE-HATE, PEACE-WAR" are reflected in the spirit of these lives.

Infused with wisdom and philosophical insights encompassing life as a whole, here is a very human story about remarkable human lives!

Purgatory of the Body is a 108-page paperback with a retail price of $14.00. The ISBN is 978-1-4349-8919-2. It was published by RoseDog Books of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information or to request a review copy, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.rosedog.com/pressroom or our online bookstore at www.rosedogbookstore.com.