EPISODE · Mar 22, 2016 · 10 MIN
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
from Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir · host Reba Jakubowski
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256470 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Author: Azar Nafisi Narrator: Azar Nafisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 22, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.
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