Azar Nafisiauthor profile |
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| born | December 01, 1955 | ||||||
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| gender | female | ||||||
| place of birth | Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of | ||||||
| genre | Nonfiction | ||||||
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about this author
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. |
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books by Azar Nafisicombine editionsavg rating: 3.41 | 10041 ratings | 2 distinct works
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quotes by Azar Nafisi
"[W]hat we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth."
— Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books)
— Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books)
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"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
— Azar Nafisi
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fiction
5 people liked it
"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: A Memoir in Books)
— Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books)