Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Hardcover

Nafisi, Azar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375504907 ISBN 13: 9780375504907

Verlag: Random House, 2003

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Book by Nafisi Azar

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Describes growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the group of young women who came together at her home in secret every Thursday to read and discuss great books of Western literature, explaining the influence of Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and other works on their lives and goals. 25,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor:

Azar Nafisi is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. She won a fellowship from Oxford and taught English literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran. She was expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the veil and left Iran for America in 1997. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic, has appeared on countless radio and television programs, and is the author of Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children.

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• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375504907
• ISBN 13: 9780375504907
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368