Reading Lolita in Tehran - A Memoir in Books

Creased spine, foxing to page edges and endpapers.

For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbideen works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university... Nafisi's luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran...