[DIFFERENT COVER]

From the back cover:

"In Iran in the late 90's, Azar Nafisi and seven young women - her former students - gathered at her house every Thursday to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. Shy and uncomfortable at first, they soon began to open up, not only about the novels they were reading but also about their own dreams and disappointments. Their personal stories intertwine with those they are reading - 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Washington Square', 'Daisy Miller' and 'Lolita' - their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran. Azar Nafisi also tells her own story, back to the early days of the revolution when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran, amid a swirl of protests and demonstrations.

Azar Nafisi's luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran. It is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, written with a startlingly original voice."

Picked up as an unregistered leftover from the June 2015 York BC Meetup.

Registering and releasing at this Tuesday evening's Meetup...

releasing, as promised...

Picked this up at a previous meetup and apparently forgot to catch it. I was looking for a copy of this, so really pleased.

An interesting read about a country we hear little from, and good cultural details. I found the timeline slightly confusing though.

Back into circulation