Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Nafisi, Azar

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781613838488)

Author: Azar Nafisi
Product Type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Nafisi, Azar

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

$32.70
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Nafisi, Azar

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

$32.70
Format: Hardcover
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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."

Author: Azar Nafisi
ISBN-10: 1613838484
ISBN-13: 9781613838488
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2003
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 1.00d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.4
Point Value: 25
Interest Level: Upper Grade
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By Azar Nafisi
By Azar Nafisi
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Azar Nafisi is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. She won a fellowship from Oxford and taught English literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran. She was expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the veil and left Iran for America in 1997. She has written for "The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal "and" The New Republic," and is the author of "Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov s Novels." She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children."

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