Celebrate BPL's centennial by reading some of the best books from the past 100 years. Join us to discuss this powerful 2003 memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi.
Celebrate BPL's centennial by reading some of the best books from the past 100 years. Join us to discuss this powerful 2003 memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi.
Check out BPL's quarterly program guide and website for additional meeting dates and times to join us on a monthly journey to explore classics from each decade.
More about Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books
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
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