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Reading Lolita in Tehran - A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
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Reading Lolita in Tehran - A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
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List price R562
Loot Price R441
Discovery Miles 4 410
You Save R121 (22%)
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of
Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered
seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden
Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious
families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time
in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to
being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils
and began to speak more freely-their stories intertwining with the
novels they were reading by Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry
James, and Vladimir Nabokov. As Islamic morality squads staged
arbitrary raids in Tehran, as fundamentalists seized hold of the
universities and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the
women in Nafisi's living room spoke not only of the books they were
reading but also about themselves, their dreams and
disappointments.
Azar Nafisi's luminous masterwork gives us a rare glimpse, from the
inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran. "Reading Lolita in
Tehran" is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, a remarkable
exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny, and a celebration
of the liberating power of literature.
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