AZAR NAFISI

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...

"Nei due decenni successivi alla rivoluzione di Khomeini, mentre le strade e i campus di Teheran erano teatro di violenze tremende, Azar Nafisi ha dovuto cimentarsi in un'impresa fra le più ardue, e cioè spiegare a ragazzi e ragazze esposti in misura crescente alla catechesi islamica una delle più temibili incarnazioni dell'Occidente: la sua let...

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I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about p...