Reading Lolita in Tehran

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From Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end.  It is the sensual experience of another world.  If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is

Comments

[siercia]

I *loved* that book. It was excellent.

[irielle]

Absolutely beautiful.