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Azar Nafisi


Azar Nafisi is the critically acclaimed author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a long-running #1 New York Times bestseller published in thirty-two languages, and Things I’ve Been Silent About, also a New York Times bestseller. A fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, she has taught at Oxford University and several universities in Tehran.

Books by Azar Nafisi

Reading Lolita In Tehran

For the first time, the phenomenal bestselling literary memoir will be published in Penguin Modern Classics

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The Republic of Imagination

From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today.

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Things I've Been Silent About

From the bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran comes this brilliant memoir of a mother, a daughter, a family.

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