10 Decades Book Club Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
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Sun Nov 24 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm
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2411 E Main St, Bexley, OH, United States, Ohio 43209 | Bexley, OH
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Celebrate BPL's centennial by reading some of the best books from the past 100 years. Join us to discuss this powerful 2003 memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi.More about Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books:
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
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