Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books

Azar Nafisi

eBook - 2003

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • A “brilliant” (The Boston Globe) memoir of one Iranian teacher’s steadfast pursuit to educate young women under a government that sought to stifle them“An inspiring account of an insatiable desire for intellectual freedom.”—USA Today“A poignant, searing tale about the secret ways Iranian women defy the regime.”—SalonA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURYEvery 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 of the women came from conservative and religious families, others were prog...ressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked... more