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Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi
For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Azar Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. Shy and uncomfortable at first, they soon began to open up and speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading - Pride and Prejudice , Washington Square , Daisy Miller and Lolita - their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran. Nafisi's account flashes back to the early days of the revolution when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl of protests and demonstrations. In those frenetic days, the students took control of the university, expelled faculty members and purged the curriculum. Azar Nafisi's luminous tale offers a portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran.
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I B Tauris & Co Ltd. 2003 hardcover. Ex library copy with the usual stamps and markings hence Acceptable. Binding sound. Pages clean and flat. Dust jacket in plastic sleeve with some edge wear.
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Random House, TPB, 2003, 26th PB printing. Clean, reasonably tight, no markings or highlighting, light wear.
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Random House, TPB, 2003, 21st PB printing. Clean, reasonably tight, no markings or highlighting, light wear on corners and edges.
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Slight edge wear. History-Middle East.
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Visible external wear. Solid binding. Moderate water damage.
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2004. Fourth Estate. Softback. Book-NearNew.
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The inspirational tale of eight women who defied the confines of life in revolutionary Iran through the joy and power of literature.
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A memoir in books. 2004. (347 p. ); cloth. Excellent. A story of love, books and revolution. When Azar Nafisi was fired from Tehran University (where she was teaching English literature) because she refused to wear a veil, she gathered a group of her female students and resumed her classes at home, privately and discreetly.
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ISBN10: 0733618235.
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Clean, tight.
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