Reading Lolita in Tehran
Editorial RANDOM HOUSE UK
Mainland Spain
- Publisher RANDOM HOUSE UK
- ISBN13 9780812979305
- ISBN10 0812979303
- Type Book
- Pages 377
- Published 2008
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Sections
English LiteratureReading Lolita in Tehran
Editorial RANDOM HOUSE UK
Mainland Spain
Book Details
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.