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Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books  Cover Image Book Book

Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books / Azar Nafisi.

Nafisi, Azar (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 081297106X (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 356 p.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004, c2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes reading group guide.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-356).
Subject: Nafisi, Azar
English teachers > Iran > Biography.
English literature > Study and teaching > Iran.
American literature > Study and teaching > Iran.
Women > Books and reading > Iran.
Books and reading > Iran.
Group reading > Iran.

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Lakeshore Branch 820.9 Nafis 31681001937275 NONFICPBK Available -

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, 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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