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Book Description
We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.
For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Reading Lolita in Tehran By Azar Nafisi
This poignant memoir from Nafisi, a professor of literature who teaches at Johns Hopkins University, is sure to resonate with readers. A native of Iran, Nafisi left the country to attend university, then returned to become a teacher in Tehran. When s ... (read full critics)
bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010
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A moving memoir about the authoress Azar and seven female students of hers. Azar was a professor at Tehran university, until resigning due to the dictatorial policies that involved banning great works of Western literature from being studied. She decided to continue to hold a private class with inv ... (continue)
Lindyloumac said on Apr 3, 2010 about the Paperback edition | 2 feedbacks
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eamonireland said on May 16, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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I love reading about classics, and I love reading memoirs and biographies, but I didn't really like the combination of the two in this book.
I found the constant interrupting of the story in order to go into a detailed literary analysis quite disturbing. I wanted to read about the group and how is ... (continue)momiji1020 said on Oct 26, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Every time I finish reading a book there is always a question that opens up: what should I read next? After closing Nafisi’s enchanting readings of Nabokov, James, Austen and Fitzgerald that question is even more complicated to answer, simply because now I'd like to read or re-read most of the novel ... (continue)
Mo Ni Ca said on Dec 20, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Missmath144 said on Aug 31, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Nearly had me running out to buy Lolita ! Whatever people make of Dr. Nafisi's motives, or the intended or unintended public relations effects of the book, personally I benefitted from the wildly varying interpretations and reactions to the classics described in it, and that's the beauty of discour ... (continue)
Fay Ng said on Aug 27, 2009 about the Others edition | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Hardcover 368 Pages
- Edition: 1st ed
- ISBN-10: 0375504907
- ISBN-13: 9780375504907
- Publisher: Random House
- Pub date: Mar 25, 2003
- Dimensions: 1419 mm x 968 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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Through the veil
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Story of Love, Books and Revolution by Azar Nafisi 347pp, IB Tauris, £14.95 After teaching literature at three universities in Tehran (and being expelled or resigning in despair from each) Azar Nafisi picked seven of her b ... (read full critics)