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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar Nafisi
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- Released
- 2008
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Azar Nafisi
- Publisher
- RANDOM HOUSE
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 380
- ISBN10
- 0812979303
- ISBN13
- 9780812979305
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Religion & Spirituality, True Stories, Biographies, History, Religious Topics, Religion, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Women, Creative Nonfiction, Military History, Military Fiction, Wars, American Literature, Feminism, English Literature, Islam, Social Critique, About Books, Diaries, Studying, Contemporary History, Iran, Reading, Women's Rights, Totalitarian regimes, Reading Instruction, Near and Middle East, Persia, Jane Austen, Totalitarian State, Women in Islam, Iranian Literature, Persian Literature, Forbidden Books
- First published
- 2003
- Original title
- Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.