Reading Lolita in Tehran
Subtitle: a memoir in books
By: Azar Nafisi.
Edition: Random House deluxe trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780812979305
Subjects: Nafisi, Azar.; English teachers -- Iran -- Biography.; English literature -- Study and teaching -- Iran.; American literature -- Study and teaching -- Iran.; Women -- Books and reading -- Iran.; Books and reading -- Iran.; Group reading -- Iran.
Genres: Biography.
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.