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Azar Nafisi

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Azar Nafisi, Ph.D. (Persian: آذر نفیسی) (born December 1955) is an Iranian professor and writer who currently resides in the United States.

Nafisi's bestselling book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books has gained a great deal of public attention and been translated into 32 languages.



Average rating: 3.51 · 66,863 ratings · 5,072 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
Reading Lolita in Tehran
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 63,958 ratings — published 2003 — 41 editions
Things I've Been Silent Abo...
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 1,532 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1994
My Uncle Napoleon
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 1,567 ratings — published 1973 — 14 editions
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January 2009, Azar Nafisi
"I think every book is a risk. If you want to get at the truth, you take a risk. But this book is the riskiest because it is so personal. " ...More

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“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

“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

“A novel is not an allegory.... 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 at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”
Azar Nafisi

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