The release date for the English version of 'Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books' by
Azar Nafisi is Dec 2003. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
For two years, on Thursday mornings, seven of the most dedicated female students of Azar Nafisi's class—a brave and inspirational teacher—met in secret every Thursday morning to study classic Western novels that were outlawed. In the midst of fundamentalists seizing control of universities, Islamic morality squads staging random raids in Tehran, and a blind censor suppressing artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked taking off their veils to lose themselves in the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. Their tales get entwined with the ones they are reading in this remarkable narrative. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a wonderful way to celebrate the emancipating power of literature and to explore perseverance in the face of oppression.