Azar Nafisi
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born
December 01, 1955
in Tehran, Iran
gender
female
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member since
January 2009
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Reading Lolita in Tehran   3.42 avg rating — 37,516 ratings
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published
2003
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32 editions
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Things I've Been Silent About 3.44 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
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published
2008
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18 editions
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آن دنیای دیگر- تاملی در آثار ولادیمیر نباکف 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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published
1994
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis , Azar Nafisi (Goodreads Author) 4.53 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
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My Uncle Napoleon: A Novel by Iraj Pezeshkzad, ایرج پزشکزاد , Dick Davis 4.04 avg rating — 1,159 ratings
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published
1973
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11 editions
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Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy, Alymer Maude , Azar Nafisi (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 957 ratings
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published
1911
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71 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
"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
― 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
― 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
― Azar Nafisi
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