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Recommended to be read!: Reading Lolita in Tehran
![]() To whom do we tell what happened on the Earth, for whom do we place everywhere huge Mirrors in the hope that they will be filled up And will stay so? (Czeslaw Milosz, "Annalena") Everyy 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 Islam morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled aryistic 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. (2004 Random House Trade Paperback Edition) si Okol @ 12:47:00 AM
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