Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books / Azar Nafisi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nafisi, Azar.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nafisi, Azar.

English teachers--Iran--Biography.

English teachers.

English literature--Study and teaching--Iran.

English literature.

American literature--Study and teaching--Iran.

American literature.

Women--Books and reading--Iran.

Women.

Books and reading--Iran.

Books and reading.

Group reading--Iran.

Group reading.

Women--Books and reading.

American literature--Study and teaching.

English literature--Study and teaching.

Iran.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

347 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2003]

Summary:

This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, 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. They were unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. 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 or protests and demonstrations. Azar Nafisi's tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran.

Contents:

Lolita

Gatsby

James

Austen.

Cited in:

Gelman, Judy. The book club cookbook 350

ISBN:

0375504907