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Books by Azar Nafisi
  | | The Republic of Imagination(Reprint) A Life in Books by Azar Nafisi, Peter Sis Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-312778-9, ISBN: 0-14-312778-0 "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 Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other ..." |
 | | That Other World Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile by Azar Nafisi, Lotfali Khonji, Valerie Miles Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2019 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15883-0, ISBN: 0-300-15883-1 "The foundational text for the acclaimed New York Times and international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation’s foremost thinker, in order to access a cultural cache alien to his regime. A literary critic provides commentary on an unfinished poem that both foretells the poet’s death and announces the critic’s secret identity as the king of a lost ..." |
 | | Things I've Been Silent About(Reprint) Memories of a Prodigal Daughter by Azar Nafisi Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2010 by Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7390-7, ISBN: 0-8129-7390-9 ""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 MagazineIn this stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, Azar Nafisi shares her memories of living in thrall to a powerful and complex mother against the backdrop of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets, a young ..." |
 | | Reading Lolita in Tehran(Reprint) A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2008 by Random House Trade Paperbacks Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7930-5, ISBN: 0-8129-7930-3 "An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officiall ..." |
 | | Reading Lolita in Tehran(1st Edition) by Azar Nafisi Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1688 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-241-24623-8, ISBN: 0-241-24623-7 "Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. As they lose themselves in the worlds of Lolita, The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice, gradually they come to share their own stories, dreams and hopes with each other, and, for a few hours, taste freedom. Azar Nafisi's bestselling memoir is a moving, passionate testament to the transfo ..." |
 | | Things I've Been Silent About(1st Edition) Memories of a Prodigal Daughter [Paperback] by Azar Nafisi Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2008 by Random House Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-6361-1, ISBN: 1-4000-6361-2 "I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about private betrayals, implicating myself and those close to me in ways I had never imagined.--Fro ..." |
 | | Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2008 by Harper Perennial International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-00-728953-0, ISBN: 0-00-728953-7 "The inspirational tale of eight women who defied the confines of life in revolutionary Iran through the joy and power of literature. 'That room for all of us, became a place of transgression. What a wonderland it was! Sitting around the large coffee table covered with bouquets of flowers ! We were, to borrow from Nabokov, to experience how the ordinary pebble of ordinary life could be transformed into a jewel through the magic eye of fi ..." |
 | | Cross Culture(Reprint) A Collection of Global Sermons by Azar Nafisi, Lillian M. Moir, Jackie Byars Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2003 by Random House Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7106-4, ISBN: 0-8129-7106-X "An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officiall ..." |
 | | Reading Lolita in Tehran(1st Edition) A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2003 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-375-50490-7, ISBN: 0-375-50490-7 "An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officiall ..." |
 | | Shahnameh The Persian Book of Kings (Penguin Classics) by Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis Firdawsi, Azar Nafisi Paperback, 1,040 Pages, Published 2016 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-310832-0, ISBN: 0-14-310832-8 "The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language editionA Penguin Classic Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows t ..." |
 | | My Uncle Napoleon(Reprint) A Novel (Modern Library (Paperback)) by Iraj Pezeshkzad, Dick Davis, Azar Nafisi, Īraj Pizishkzād Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2006 by Modern Library ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7443-0, ISBN: 0-8129-7443-3 "The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century God forbid, I ve fallen in love with Layli! So begins the farce of our narrator s life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon. When Uncle Napoleon s least-favorite nephew falls for his daughter, Layli, family fortunes are reversed, feuds fired up and resolved, and assignations attempted and thwarted. Fir ..." |
 | | READING \"LOLITA\" IN TEHRAN(Reprint) A MEMOIR IN BOOKS (STRANGER THAN... S.) by Azar Nafisi, Azar Fisi Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2007 by Haper Perennial Import ISBN-13: 978-0-00-724178-1, ISBN: 0-00-724178-X "An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officiall ..." |
 | | Reading "Lolita" in Tehran(Updated) A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2004 by Fourth Estate Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-00-717848-3, ISBN: 0-00-717848-4 "An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officiall ..." |
 | | Reading 'Lolita' in Tehran A Story of Love, Books and Revolution by Azar Nafisi Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 2003 by I.B.Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-86064-981-3, ISBN: 1-86064-981-5 "When Azar Nafisi was fired from Tehran University (where she was teaching English literature) because she refused to wear a veil, she gathered a group of her female students and resumed her classes at home, privately and discreetly. There, a group of young women discussed, argued about and communed with Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Henry James, Nabokov and others in the canon of English writers. The surreal picture of reading "Lolita", wei ..." |
 | | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(Reprint) (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Mark J. Twain, Azar Nafisi, R. Kent Rasmussen, Penguin Classics Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2014 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-310732-3, ISBN: 0-14-310732-1 "Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious. Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in themselves (the cockeyed Sh ..." |
 | | Hadji Murad(1st Edition) (Modern Library Classics) by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Azar Nafisi, Alymer Maude, Aylmer Maude, Leo/ Maude, Leo Tolstoi, Leo Tolstoy Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2003 by Modern Library Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-6711-1, ISBN: 0-8129-6711-9 "In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murád, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamil’s prison, Hadji Murád was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle of his life, was killed.Tolstoy, witness ..." |
 | | The Republic of Imagination A Case for Fiction. by Azar Nafisi Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2015 by Windmill Books ISBN-13: 978-0-09-955893-4, ISBN: 0-09-955893-9 "From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today.Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating follow-up ..." |
 | | The Republic of Imagination(1st Edition) by Azar Nafisi Hardcover, 338 Pages, Published 2014 by Viking ISBN-13: 978-0-434-02215-1, ISBN: 0-434-02215-2 "From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today.Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating follow-up ..." |
 | | The Republic of Imagination(1st Edition) America in Three Books by Azar Nafisi, Peter Sis Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2014 by The Viking Press ISBN-13: 978-0-670-02606-7, ISBN: 0-670-02606-9 " A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people’s lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating fol ..." |
 | | Reading Lolita In Tehran - A Memoir In Books by Azar Nafisi Paperback, 347 Pages, Published 2003 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-9654708-0-3, ISBN: 0-9654708-0-6 "Brand new. Never read. Excellent condition." |
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