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Reading Lolita in Tehran

19.99 €
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
19.99 €
An outstanding documentary novel that has deservedly achieved worldwide popularity. It explores how politics intrudes into personal life and the inescapable thirst for freedom. This true story, filled with striking details, offers an inside look at life in a pariah state.

Azar Nafisi, the American-educated daughter of Tehran's former mayor, returns to her homeland to teach foreign literature to Iranian students. The Islamic Revolution disrupts all plans, and classes turn into secret meetings. While law enforcement raids across the country, fundamentalists seize universities, and censorship stifles the arts, the young women visiting Nafisi fearlessly remove their hijabs and immerse themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Vladimir Nabokov. The "shaky unreality" of these events transforms into a magical celebration of literature.
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