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100 _aNafisi, Azar.
245 _aReading Lolita in Tehran
250 _aPBK
260 _aNew York.
_bRandom House.
_c8/22/2008
300 _a356 p.
500 _aProf. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to repressive government policies. For the next 2 years, until she left Iran, she gathered 7 young women, former students, at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss works of Western literature forbidden by the new regime. They used this forum to learn to speak freely, not onl
590 _b42514
650 _aNafisi, Azar.
650 _aEnglish literature -- Iran -- Biography.
650 _aAmerican literature -- Study and teaching -- Iran.
650 _aWomen -- Books and reading -- Iran.
651 _xGroup reading -- Iran.
852 _oPBK 820.9 NAF
999 _c45914
_d45914