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Things I've been silent about memories

Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives readers a stunning personal story of growing up in a family in Iran, moving memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and difficult mother, against the background of Iran during a time of revolution and...

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Main Author: Nafisi, Azar.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House ; c2008.
Subjects:
English teachers > Iran > Biography.
Women > Iran > Biography.
Memoirs.
Summary: Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives readers a stunning personal story of growing up in a family in Iran, moving memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and difficult mother, against the background of Iran during a time of revolution and change.
Physical Description: xxi, 336 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9781400063611 (acid-free paper)
1400063612 (acid-free paper)
9781588367495 (e-book)
1588367495 (e-book)
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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