Lolita lesen in Teheran by Azar Nafisi

3.66 AVERAGE

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3.0
challenging informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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2.0
challenging slow-paced
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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2025 reads: 189/300

2025 tbr: 47/111

in this memoir, azar nafisi details the two years she spent secretly hosting a book club focusing on forbidden clasics in iran. i liked the comparisons between the classics nafisi’s club read and her students’ real lives. i’d recommend this to anyone interested in books about books and memoirs set in southwest asia.

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3.0
3.5

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3.25
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piff88's review against another edition

4.0
One of the hardest books we have read in book club. I enjoyed reading it don't get me wrong, but it was not a page turner,at least not for me. The story got a little complicated, but it was interesting to read and follow all the commentary made on the Iranian regime through literary criticism. The author clearly knows her literature and she was able to marry Austen, James and Nabokov to reality in Iran, and explain from her perspective how the Islamic regime interacted with women and oppressed them.
I highly recommend it, but don't read it thinking it is going to be a chic read, that it is not.

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4.0
informative inspiring reflective slow-paced