by Azar Nafisi · RANDOM HOUSE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007743957
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«Reading Lolita in Tehran» is Azar Nafisi's memoir, published by Random House in paperback (368 pages, in English).
In 1990s Tehran, Azar Nafisi, a literature professor who has left the university, secretly meets with seven former students to discuss banned Western works. The narrative interweaves their lives with Lolita, Pride and Prejudice and Washington Square, showing how reading becomes a space of freedom and resistance.
The subtitle is 'A Memoir in Books'. The work originally appeared in 2003 and this edition in 2004; it received the Book Sense Book of the Year Award (2004).
For readers of memoirs and non-fiction, with an interest in Iran, women and books about books; also common in book clubs.
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.
