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Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi

Form
Form Memoir
Year
Year 2003
Pages
Pages 370

A professor forced out of her Tehran university gathers seven women students in her living room each week to read forbidden novels, and their lives under the revolution read back against Nabokov and Austen until she leaves for good.

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi

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