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Author: Azar NafisiFormat: --
Publisher: Random House IncISBN-10: 081297106X
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-13: 9780812971064
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Azar Nafisi formed a book club in Tehran comprised of seven young women who got together to discuss such books as THE GREAT GATSBY, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, DAISY MILLER, and, of course, LOLITA--books forbidden by the Islamic government. In this memoir, Nafisi, who was expelled from the country for refusing to wear the veil, writes about those women, the books, and her own career as a teacher of English literature--first in Iran, now (less precariously) at Johns Hopkins.

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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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"A spirited tribute both to the classics of world literature and to resistance against oppression."
Kirkus Reviews  (02/15/2003)

"[A]n eloquent brief on the transformative powers of fiction--on the refuge from ideology that art can offer to those living under tyranny, and art's affirmative and subversive faith in the voice of the individual....In this resonant and deeply affecting memoir, Ms. Nafisi pays tribute to all [her students'] lives and to the books that sustained them during some of the darkest days of the Iranian cultural revolution."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (03/15/2003)

"You have to spend a lifetime reading to write as well as Nafisi does. She is incapable of writing a trite or bad sentence....READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN had a most unusual effect on me. I didn't want to be interrupted, so I canceled a dental appointment and a business lunch and missed a deadline. I read and read and ignored the world. This is what brilliant books will do...."
Nation - Gloria Emerson (06/16/2003)

"There are certain books by our most talented essayists...that...carry inside their covers the heat and struggle of a life's central choice being made and the price being paid, while the writer tells us about other matters, and leaves behind a path of sadness and sparkling loss. READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN is such a book."
Atlantic Monthly - Mona Simpson (06/01/2003)


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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 081297106X
Title : Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
EAN : 9780812971064
Authors : Azar Nafisi
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Publication Date : 2003-12-30
Pages : 384
List Price (MSRP) : 15.00
Height : 0.9000 inches
Width : 5.2000 inches
Length : 7.9000 inches
Weight : 0.4000 pounds
Keywords : Biographies & Memoirs, General AAS, General, Women, Women in Islam, Paperback, Printed Books
Condition : Good

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