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"Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution. A girl's pain over family secrets; a young woman's discovery of the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval...
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This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. They were unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about...
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"Azar Nafisi's bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran ended with her arrival in America with her young family, carrying little more than the beloved books that helped her survive in revolutionary Iran. The Republic of Imagination gives us the next chapter in Azar's journey, as she settles into her new life as a teacher in Washington, DC, and wonders what it means to become an American citizen. She turns for an answer to the writings of the Founding fathers...
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