by Azar Nafisi · Quinteto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496333154
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«Leer Lolita en Teherán» is the autobiographical essay by Azar Nafisi, published by Quinteto in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
After being disciplined for refusing to wear the veil, professor Azar Nafisi gathered seven students weekly at her home to read and discuss Western novels banned by the ayatollahs' regime. Overcoming their initial shyness, the young women found in those books a space of freedom to talk about Jane Austen, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald or Nabokov, and also about their own dreams and frustrations in the face of ideological tyranny.
A memoir work in the vein of autobiographical narrative, originally published as «Reading Lolita in Tehran» (2003) and translated into Spanish by María Luz García.
Recommended for readers interested in memoirs, literature, feminism, and the history of Iran and the Middle East.
Azar Nafisi is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in the United States since 1997 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008.
