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Reading Lolita in Tehran
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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