Azar Nafisi: 7 books
Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. 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...
by Jean-Claude CARRIERE, Azar NAFISI
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Azar Nafisi croit à la fonction subversive de la littérature. Elle tisse son histoire personnelle à travers celle de sa patrie, l'Iran. Conflits, espoirs, souvenirs : un témoignage à la beauté mélancolique.
Briser le silence. De l'ascension politique de son père en Iran à la trahison,...
The Republic of Imagination
America in Three Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
**A New York Times bestseller
The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America**
Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading...
by Azar Nafisi
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
"Absorbing . . . a testament to the ways in which narrative truth-telling—from the greatest works of literature to the most intimate family stories—sustains and strengthens us.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
In this stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, Azar Nafisi shares her...
by Azar NAFISI
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Après avoir démissionné de l'Université de Téhéran sous la pression des autorités iraniennes, Azar Nafisi a réuni pendant deux ans, dans l'intimité de son salon, sept étudiantes pour y lire Nabokov, Fitzgerald, Austen... Ce livre magnifique est le portrait brut et déchirant de la révolution...
by Azar Nafisi
Language: French
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Cet essai très personnel part du principe que la fiction est en danger dans l’Amérique d’aujourd’hui, dans un monde ou les tweets et YouTube accaparent l’individu au détriment de son imaginaire. L’auteur associe ses souvenirs de lectures des grandes œuvres américaines à son itinéraire...
by Sinclair Lewis, Azar Nafisi
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
In the fall of 1920, Sinclair Lewis began a novel set in a fast-growing city with the heart and mind of a small town. For the center of his cutting satire of American business he created the bustling, shallow, and myopic George F. Babbitt, the epitome of middle-class mediocrity. The novel cemented...