They had eleven months. They built a nation. In the Kurdish mountains of northwestern Iran, the city of Mahabad has spent decades under a government that forbids its language, erases its history, and insists it does not exist as a people. Then, in the chaos left by the Second World War, a window opens — and one extraordinary man decides to walk through it.
 
On January 22, 1946, Qazi Muhammad stands in the Chwar Chira square and proclaims the Republic of Kurdistan. For the first time in modern history, the Kurds have a country of their own. One Year of Sun follows Narin Rostami — schoolteacher's wife, writer, administrator, keeper of records — through every month of the Republic's brief, blazing life. She watches her husband transform into a statesman. She opens a school where girls read Kurdish out loud for the first time. She meets the legendary fighter Mustafa Barzani over a dinner table. And she watches as the Soviet Union — the great power that made the Republic possible — quietly folds its hand and walks away.
 
The Iranian Army is coming. The tribal alliances are fracturing. The window is closing. What Narin does next — not with weapons, but with paper, ink, and the stubborn conviction that what has happened must be written down and remembered — is its own kind of resistance. Based on the true story of the only independent Kurdish state in modern history. Includes a full Historical Afterword. 
 
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