Reading Lolita in Tehran

one must read it. it doesn't talk of just one protagonist, but a bunch of them. introduces you to a whole new set of scenarios and feelings and conventions from every protagonist's view. i like the way she uses metaphors. really shook me to the core.

This is an enjoyable and eye opening read. However, i strongly suggest you read Lolita and some other Nabokov books because there are so many specific references that one feels incomplete. I have read Lolita, but so long ago I no longer remember specific details.

I got to learn about Iran and it’s struggle through his book

The quality of the page is a bit thinThe print is lighter and otherwise it is good.The quality of the book should've been better at this price.

Okay so i bought this book last month and just found the time to read it. I don't know about everybody else who bought this edition, but mine here says that it comes with an introduction by Margarita G. Smith. However, it's nowhere to be found in my copy. There is no introduction but everything else seems to be in place. I don't know if it's an issue with my copy or if it's a misprint.And need i say anything more about how amazing the book is? I think the other reviewers have said enough!

The cover of the book is tattered from above. I paid the full amount for a damaged book (that can't be replaced) apparently. Very disappointed.As excited as I am to read the book, the cover of the book breaks my heart. we buy books for the experience.

I can’t remember a time when I haven’t been fascinated by Iran and its contradictions, so I literally jumped at this book, whose title is not the least of these contradictions. It has also always been equally fascinating to me to read authors who write about books I’ve read (it’s getting complicated). Anyways, Azar Nafisi has taught English literature at several universities in Tehran, but was, like so many others, expelled during the revolution in the Eighties. This led to her holding a class for her most interested and interesting students in her home. It’s about this group and the books they read, but even more so, it is about living as a (feminist) woman in a time where rights are cut off and education is demonised.It is a complicated book, going backwards and forwards and sideways, but I loved the glimpses into lives that are so similar to our own intellectual bubbles and at the same time totally different.

Un manifesto contro i populismi e i movimenti estremisti, spesso di stampo religioso, che rovinano il mondo.

Gives a personal insight into issues in Iran from the 20th to the 21st Centuries. Well done, reads quickly for such historical issue.

I think this novel makes a fascinating read. The writer cleverly managed to do exactly what the lecturer in the book(on the very first page) told her students about writing fiction i.e. 'do not under any circumstances belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life.'Anyone who has tried to write a novel knows what Nafisi means. I feel utterly comfortable with the idea that she has thrown around bits and pieces of truth together with heightening intensity to try to produce an interesting story which will also communicate something about the feelings of different women growing up in Iran with the background of some of the painful political events. I think some of the reviews I have read are politically motivated. Especially true of the reviews in the USA. Of course many have written honestly of how much they liked the book or how it did not touch them. I loved it! One reason is the brilliance of the teacher! I would sign on tomorrow if I could go to the class of such a teacher. Then her background drawn of life in Tehran - stunned me - as I suddenly felt 'inside' that culture during some of the horrific happenings of its vicious government. I have many Iranian friends - and one who is very close. She was in prison, tortured and her husband killed by the regime. I have actually read reviews of Iranians trying to make out that Nafisi is somehow denigrating Iran and its' culture - I cannot understand it. Everything she writes shows me how much she loves Iran and the poetry and literature is part of her. She has communicated that to me. I think people trying to say she is insulting Iran - must have a mask in front of their eyes and cotton wool in their ears - and do not want to see the suffering of many many Iranians.

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