Reading Lolita in Tehran
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An outstanding documentary novel, deservedly gaining world popularity. The book about how politics invades a person’s personal life, and about the thirst for freedom, which cannot be destroyed. A true story, filled with amazing details, is a look from the inside of the existence in the country -rogue.
Azar Nafisi, the daughter of the former mayor of Tehran, who was educated in America, returns to his homeland in order to teach foreign literature to Iranian students. The Islamic Revolution destroys all plans, and classes turn into secret meetings. While law enforcement officers arrange raids throughout the country, fundamentalists capture universities, and censorship strangles art, girls visiting Nafisi fearlessly take off the hijabs and inspirely plunge into the worlds of Jane Austin, Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Vladimir Nabokov. "The shabby unrealism" of what is happening turns into an enchanting festival of love for literature
Azar Nafisi, the daughter of the former mayor of Tehran, who was educated in America, returns to his homeland in order to teach foreign literature to Iranian students. The Islamic Revolution destroys all plans, and classes turn into secret meetings. While law enforcement officers arrange raids throughout the country, fundamentalists capture universities, and censorship strangles art, girls visiting Nafisi fearlessly take off the hijabs and inspirely plunge into the worlds of Jane Austin, Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Vladimir Nabokov. "The shabby unrealism" of what is happening turns into an enchanting festival of love for literature
Author:
Author:Нафиси А.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-907428-53-9
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