Reading Lolita in Tehran - A Memoir in Books

366 Pages·2009·1.45 MB·English

by  Nafisi Azar

Reading
Lolita
in
Tehran
a memoir in books
Azar Nafisi
RANDOM HOUSE
TRADE PAPERBACKS
NEW YORK
CONTENTS
Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Author’s Note
Part 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Part 2
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Part 3
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Part 4
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise for Reading Lolita in Tehran
Suggested Reading
Reading Group Guide
Copyright
IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, NEZHAT NAFISI
FOR MY FATHER, AHMAD NAFISI,
AND MY FAMILY: BIJAN, NEGAR AND DARA NADERI
To whom do we tell what happened on the
Earth, for whom do we place everywhere huge
Mirrors in the hope that they will be filled up
And will stay so?
Czeslaw Milosz, “Annalena”
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Aspects of characters and events in this story have been changed mainly to
protect individuals, not just from the eye of the censor but also from those who
read such narratives to discover who’s who and who did what to whom, thriving
on and filling their own emptiness through others’ secrets. The facts in this story
are true insofar as any memory is ever truthful, but I have made every effort to
protect friends and students, baptizing them with new names and disguising
them perhaps even from themselves, changing and interchanging facets of their
lives so that their secrets are safe.