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Reading Lolita in Tehran

A Memoir in Books

by Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi
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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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  • Release date

    March 22, 2016

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      • ISBN: 9781101921845
      • File size: 507284 KB
      • Duration: 17:36:50

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN is a literary and audio masterpiece. The book is Azar Nafisi's brilliant, evocative, chilling, and highly literary memoir of life as a woman in Iran under the current repressive government. Although Nafisi focuses on the secret meetings at her home with several female former students, during which they read and discuss banned works of Western literature, the book is also a portrait of a life of fear and optimism at a time when hope is elusive. Lisette Lecat's reading is magnificent. She reads with an elegance and authenticity that permit listeners to feel as though they are also in Nafisi's home. In addition, Lecat handles with ease and authority the passages in which Nafisi explains the intricacies of many works of literature. Nafisi's memoir is destined to become a classic. D.J.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

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