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Also by Azar Nafisi:

Things I've Been Silent About: Memories, January 2009
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Reading Lolita in Tehran, November 2008
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Reading Lolita in Tehran, December 2003
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READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN
By: Azar Nafisi

Random House
November 2008
On Sale: November 4, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 0812979303
EAN: 9780812979305
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Non-Fiction Memoir

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.

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