Goodreads synopsis: 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.
My rating: 5 stars.
Content warnings: PG-13. Frank discussions on sexuality, violence, and the sexual abuse of a child from a piece of literature.
Thoughts: I'm not really sure what else to say that the last sentence of the synopsis doesn't already say. But I can confirm that it does not over hype this book. I could even say it might not do it enough justice.
This book was beautiful. And important enough I think most people should read it, for a lot of reasons.
It's well written, lovely, important, and can make the reader face ideas in their own life that they may need to. I'm already looking forward to rereading this one.
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