This book we now feature can also be considered as a chick lit, but the extremely serious version, though. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi recounts the prohibitive life of the women in her country, Iran, and tells their inspiring struggle towards intellectual freedom and their desire for independent thinking. In this book, Nafisi discusses in full and vivid details the hardships the Iranian women went through before, during and after the 1979 revolution as well as during Ayatollah Khomeini’s government who is known for his anti-American policies. This kind of extremely conservative, backward and patriarchal society has stunted the intellectual growth and development of the women all over the world especially in conservative Muslim countries like Iran. Nafisi and all the women in the world had to contend with this obstacles in their desire to get quality education, achieve gender equality and improve their intellectual status as growth-seeking beings.

About the Author:

Ever since the 1979 revolution that brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power, Western culture and literature has become wholly reviled in Iran and especially forbidden for women to explore. However, that did not stop Azar Nafisi from gathering a small group of women to her home every Thursday to lead a discussion group on such banned Western classics as Pride and Prejudice and Lolita.

BOOK INFORMATION:

Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Author: Azar Nafisi
Published: December 2003
ISBN-13: 9780812971064
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Synopsis:

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.

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