Reading Lolita in Tehran

Nafisi, Azar

ISBN 10: 1860649815 / ISBN 13: 9781860649813

Published by I.B. Taurus & Co Ltd, London, 2003

About this Item

Previously published in the US by Random House. First UK edition. No price printed on front flap. Signed by the author on the half title page with a dedication and dated in the year of publication. Boards clean and unmarked. Tiny mark on bottom corner of page edges. Very slight surface wear to jacket. Both book and jacke are near Fine. First printing. Seller Inventory # 009267

Bibliographic Details

Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Publisher: I.B. Taurus & Co Ltd, London

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

When Azar Nafisi was fired from Tehran University (where she was teaching English literature) because she refused to wear a veil, she gathered a group of her female students and resumed her classes at home, privately and discreetly. There, a group of young women discussed, argued about and communed with Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Henry James, Nabokov and others in the canon of English writers. The surreal picture of reading "Lolita", weighing the sexuality of Jane Austen or the American authenticity of Gatsby in the severe aftermath of Iran's Islamic Revolution was not lost on either Nafisi or her students. The young women themselves represented a range of types and as we meet each of these students we enter their lives, investigate their backgrounds and receive an interesting insight into life in contemporary Iran.

About the Author:

Azar Nafisi is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. She won a fellowship from Oxford and taught English literature at the University of Tehran. She moved to America in 1997 and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic.