Reading Lolita in Tehran

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Author: Azar Nafisi
Genre: Biography & Memoirs
Reading Lolita in Tehran.jpg Synopsis

In this 'Memoir in Books', Nafisi, a professor of English Literature, recounts her story of lecturing during the revolution and of later holding an illicit, all female book group in her living room, before she left for America.


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