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“What we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

October 17, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

Nowhere Book Bingo 25: A Bookish Memoir/biography CBR17 Pie Chart: Education CBR17 Bingo: Citizen (Nafisi lived and taught in Iran during increasingly more dictatorial strictures against its citizens) Official summary: 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 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, authoritarianism, Azar Nafisi, BIPOC, cbr17, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, cbr17bingo, dictatorship, feminism, friendship, liteature, literary analysis, Malin, non fiction

Malin's CBR17 Review No:61 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, authoritarianism, Azar Nafisi, BIPOC, cbr17, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, cbr17bingo, dictatorship, feminism, friendship, liteature, literary analysis, Malin, non fiction ·
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