Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi [in AsianWeek]
For two years before she left Iran, Nafisi, a resigned university professor, spent almost every Thursday morning with seven of her favorite former female students, discussing Western classics in a secret book group. Nafisi draws a parallel between the young Lolita, who is coerced, denied, and ultimately overtaken by the oafish Humbert and the experience of Iranian women under the totalitarian regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Review: “New and Notable Books,” AsianWeek, June 27, 2009
Readers: Adult
Published: 2003
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