The Resource Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books, Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books, Azar Nafisi
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The item Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books, Azar Nafisi represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 12 library branches.
- 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 of 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 347 p.
- Contents
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- Lolita
- Gatsby
- James
- Austen
- Isbn
- 9780375504907
- Label
- Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
- Title
- Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Title remainder
- a memoir in books
- Statement of responsibility
- Azar Nafisi
- Language
- eng
- 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 of 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
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nafisi, Azar
- Dewey number
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- 820.9
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PE64.N34
- LC item number
- A3 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Nafisi, Azar
- English teachers
- English literature
- American literature
- Women
- Books and reading
- Group reading
- Label
- Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books, Azar Nafisi
- Contents
- Lolita -- Gatsby -- James -- Austen
- Control code
- ocm50767987
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 347 p.
- Isbn
- 9780375504907
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper : hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2002036724
- Label
- Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books, Azar Nafisi
- Contents
- Lolita -- Gatsby -- James -- Austen
- Control code
- ocm50767987
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 347 p.
- Isbn
- 9780375504907
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper : hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2002036724
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