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Reading Lolita in Tehran a memoir in books

This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom s...

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Main Author: Nafisi, Azar.
Other Authors: Lecat, Lisette.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2004.
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Nafisi, Azar.
English teachers > Iran > Biography.
English literature > Study and teaching > Iran.
American literature > Study and teaching > Iran.
Women > Books and reading > Iran.
Books and reading > Iran.
Group reading > Iran.
Summary: This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. They were unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Nafisi's account flashes back to the early days of the revolution, when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl or protests and demonstrations. Azar Nafisi's tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran.
Item Description: Compact disc.
Subtitle from container.
Physical Description: 16 sound discs (18.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also on cassette.
ISBN: 1402592833 :
Author Notes: AZAR NAFISI is a visiting professor and the director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She has taught Western literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University, and the University of Allameh Tabatabai in Iran.

In 1994 she won a teaching fellowship from Oxford University, and in 1997 she and her family left Iran for America. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic and has appeared on radio and television programs.

Azar's book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, was published in 2003 to wide acclaim.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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