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Rent Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Dec 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Women
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 368
Synopsis
Azar Nafasi formed a book club in Tehran comprised of seven young women who got together to discuss such books as THE GREAT GATSBY, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, DAISY MILLER, and, of course, LOLITA--books forbidden by the Islamic government. In this memoir, Nafasi, who was expelled from the country for refusing to wear the veil, writes about those women, the books, and her own career as a teacher of English literature--first in Iran, now (less precariously) at Johns Hopkins.
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