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Reading Lolita In Tehran
  • Published: 2 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241246238
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.99
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Reading Lolita In Tehran

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Paperback
2 July 2015
EBook
13 Oct 2015
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For the first time, the phenomenal bestselling literary memoir will be published in Penguin Modern Classics

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. As they lose themselves in the worlds of Lolita, The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice, gradually they come to share their own stories, dreams and hopes with each other, and, for a few hours, taste freedom. Azar Nafisi's bestselling memoir is a moving, passionate testament to the transformative power of books, the magic of words and the search for beauty in life's darkest moments.
  • Published: 2 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241246238
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.99
Categories:

About the author

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.
portrait photo of Azar Nafisi

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Praise for Reading Lolita In Tehran

Engrossing, fascinating, stunning

Margaret Atwood

I was enthralled and moved

Susan Sontag

Anyone who has ever belonged to a book group must read this book

Geraldine Brooks

Vivid, often heroic and sometimes funny ... Nafisi's rather wonderful book touches a beauty of its own

Paul Allen, Guardian

Remarkable ... an eloquent brief on the transformative power of fiction

The New York Times