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Timothy Gray approved rob’s request to change the title of Reading Lolita in Tehran 10 days ago.
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rob changed the title of Reading Lolita in Tehran 10 days ago.
Reading"Lolita"Lolita in Tehran
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Shelfari edited the description of Reading Lolita in Tehran Wednesday, December 9 2009.
Brand new. Never read. Excellent condition.
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Shelfari edited the contributors of Reading Lolita in Tehran Wednesday, December 9 2009.
- Added a contributor: Azar Nafisi: (Primary Author)
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Kevin approved ’s request to combine 2 books, including Reading Lolita in Tehran, Thursday, September 24 2009.
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submitted a request to combine 2 books, including Reading Lolita in Tehran, Thursday, September 24 2009.
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Timothy Gray approved Halie’s request to combine 4 books, including Reading Lolita in Tehran, Saturday, August 29 2009.
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Halie submitted a request to combine 4 books, including Reading Lolita in Tehran, Thursday, August 13 2009.
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Shelfari edited the description of Reading Lolita in Tehran Friday, July 31 2009.
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 liberating power of literature.
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Shelfari edited the contributors of Reading Lolita in Tehran Tuesday, July 21 2009.
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