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ermartinez 's review for:
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
I absolutely adore this book. It has a special place in my heart and on my bookshelf :)
Azar Nafisi is an amazing author and she brilliantly mirrors the lives of women in Tehran with those of the heroines in classic novels such as "Pride and Prejudice." Nafisi writes during the onset of the Iranian cultural revolution. Nafisi is a professor and the University of Tehran and refuses to "submit" to the new authoritarian rule of wearing a veil, censoring certain books/subjects, etc. She eventually gets expelled. Throughout the book, the "secret" book club she formed frames the narrative; Due to the nature of their Iranian society, the group of women that Nafisi meets with must meet in secret.
"Reading Lolita in Tehran" tells of her life journey through this revolution and her attempts to help the women of the bookclub become their own heroines.
Azar Nafisi is an amazing author and she brilliantly mirrors the lives of women in Tehran with those of the heroines in classic novels such as "Pride and Prejudice." Nafisi writes during the onset of the Iranian cultural revolution. Nafisi is a professor and the University of Tehran and refuses to "submit" to the new authoritarian rule of wearing a veil, censoring certain books/subjects, etc. She eventually gets expelled. Throughout the book, the "secret" book club she formed frames the narrative; Due to the nature of their Iranian society, the group of women that Nafisi meets with must meet in secret.
"Reading Lolita in Tehran" tells of her life journey through this revolution and her attempts to help the women of the bookclub become their own heroines.