Just when the Police were winning a Grammy with a song that included the allusive line `just like the old man in that book by Nabakov’, it was a crime to read Lolita in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Azar Nafisi’s spendidly-titled book chronicles one woman’s experience of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s long descent into decadent darkness. (more…)
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sumptuous and dark writing: Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran. A Memoir in Books
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