TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nafisi,Azar
TI  - Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books 
SN  - 0375504907 (acidfree paper)
AV  - PE64.N34 A3 2003
U1  - 820.9B 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Nafisi, Azar.
KW  - American literature
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Iran
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - English literature
KW  - English teachers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Group reading
KW  - Women
N1  - Lolita -- Gatsby -- James -- Austen
N2  - 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-Irqz war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran
ER  -