Fiction
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
A Random House trade paperback memoir about a secret literature class Azar Nafisi held in Iran during the 1990s, reading Austen, Fitzgerald, Nabokov, and James with a group of women. The book is at once a reading memoir, a political document, and a meditation on what fiction does under censorship. The Random House cover is the standard trade look: elegant, serious, designed for book clubs as much as for academics. Random House packaged it with the same burgundy spine the house used for book-club fiction at the time. Ideal reader: the reader who believes novels are a form of resistance, or the Westerner who needs to be reminded that Lolita has readers outside the syllabus.
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