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Book Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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Scary picture of what it could be like living in a country under the rule of religious zealots. This book is about a group of young women and a professor (Nafisi) that gather to study some of the forbidden literature of the decandent West. What is revealed is the effect of the current ruling regime on these young women as they search for their own uniqueness in a society that seeks to cloth them in sameness.