“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
For the upcoming {LBBD} Book Club, we will be discussing Azar Nafisi’s ‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’.
Here’s a little about the book |
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils and began to speak more freely — their stories intertwining with the novels they were reading by Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, as fundamentalists seized hold of the universities and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the women in Nafisi’s living room spoke not only of the books they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments.
Azar Nafisi’s luminous masterwork gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny, and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.
Join us to discuss your thoughts, perceptions and share your experience reading
Reading Lolita in Tehran
on
Date | Saturday, August 25th
Time | 5.30 pm
Venue | Latitude Cafe in Khan Market {above Good Earth}
Register | Send us an email on contactus@littleblackbookdelhi.com to register.
See you soon!
To everyone who made it to our previous Book Club Meeting; it was fantastic meeting each one of you and hearing your thoughts on ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’. Everybody had something new and unique to add to the discussion, and an array of themes and topics were brought to the table. Most of all, we hope that all who attended enjoyed themselves!
