Bibliography: 9TZVETD5

key	9TZVETD5
title	Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books
author	Nafisi, Azar
item type	Book
publication year	2003
date	2003
ISBN	0375504907 (acid-free paper). 9780375504907 (acid-free paper). 0965470806 (pbk.). 9780965470803 (pbk.)
abstract note	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.
number pages	347
publisher	Random House
place	New York
language	English
manual tags	IRAN; ENGLISH TEACHERS
edition	1st ed.