Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi
Seven women. Forbidden books. The Republic outside.
you believe that literature is not a luxury but the thing that keeps people human under pressure
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For two years after leaving her university position, Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to her home every Thursday morning to read forbidden Western literature — Nabokov, Fitzgerald, James, Austen. This is the memoir of those sessions. The books they read become a way of talking about Iran, about freedom, about the female body as contested territory. A dispatch about what literature does when the state decides it's dangerous.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Iran • Middle East
- Voice
- Written by a Iranian author
- Themes
- Witness
