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Reading Lolita in Teheran (לקרוא את לוליטה בטהרן) by אזאר נאפיסי is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils and began to speak more freely–their stories intertwining with the novels they were reading by Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, as fundamentalists seized hold of the universities and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the women in Nafisi's living room spoke not only of the books they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Azar Nafisi's luminous masterwork gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny, and a celebration of the libera

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Author

אזאר נאפיסי

Publisher

Yediʻot aḥaronot : Sifre ḥemed

Published

2005

Language

HE

ISBN

9789655118469

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Biography

Rating

3.57 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24