Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

Reading Nabokov, James, Austen, Fitzgerald:

Azar Nafisi's memoir once again demonstrates the power of ideas in literature in an oppressive regime (think "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seanstress"). Nafisi is a western educated professor of English literature, who returns to Iran from the US and tries for a long time to live within the confines of the Iranian system. She is persuaded to teach at university and seems to have friends in high places who protect her even as her class explores ideas that aren't orthodox by the standards of the religious... more info

Inspiring in a very understated way:

I love personal accounts like those in this book. Azar Nafisi brilliantly weaves the plots and characters of her seven secret literature students with the plots and characters from famous western literature thus the title - Lolita. The author is a former teacher at a Tehran University where she resigns because the revolution and implementation of the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime has made teaching western literature there too difficult. She then teaches this small group of students secretly at her home. She... more info

Excellent Style:

Excellent style of writing,a story that captures your attention and holds it. I am a fan of Non Fiction works, Particularly that of Memoirs-Autobiographies. This book is meaty and hard to put down. Other Non Fiction works that have caught my attention are- Running With Scissors,One Child and Nightmares Echo

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