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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
December 2011: Reading Lolita in Tehran
HOSTESS: Oona
PAGES: 384
PUBLISHED: 2003
REASON CHOSEN: "It has been recommended to me by multiple friends and family and I thought it would be great to read about women from another culture and get their take on classic literature."
MEETING DATE/TIME: Wedneaday, December 21st at 6:30PM
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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