Reading Lolita in Tehran: Azar Nafisi (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Nafisi, Azar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241246237 ISBN 13: 9780241246238

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2015

Synopsis

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. As they lose themselves in the worlds of Lolita, The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice, gradually they come to share their own stories, dreams and hopes with each other, and, for a few hours, taste freedom. Azar Nafisi's bestselling memoir is a moving, passionate testament to the transformative power of books, the magic of words and the search for beauty in life's darkest moments.

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Review:

Engrossing, fascinating, stunning (Margaret Atwood)

I was enthralled and moved (Susan Sontag)

Anyone who has ever belonged to a book group must read this book (Geraldine Brooks)

Vivid, often heroic and sometimes funny ... Nafisi's rather wonderful book touches a beauty of its own (Paul Allen Guardian)

Remarkable ... an eloquent brief on the transformative power of fiction (The New York Times)

About the Author:

Azar Nafisi is a visiting professor and the director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She has taught Western literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University, and the University of Allameh Tabatabai in Iran. In 1981 she was expelled from the University of Tehran after refusing to wear the veil. In 1994 she won a teaching fellowship from Oxford University, and in 1997 she and her family left Iran for America. She is the author of The Republic of Imagination and Things I've Been Silent About, and lives in Washington D.C. with her husband and two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0241246237
• ISBN 13: 9780241246238
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368