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"Beautiful and terrible. The prose is glorious. The story related makes me feel helpless, hopeless, and with no faith in humanity." — 28 lug. 19:28
"Beautiful and terrible. The prose is glorious. The story related makes me feel helpless, hopeless, and with no faith in humanity." — 28 lug. 19:28
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""Thoroughly American and utterly beautiful", indeed. I read through the essay during my ride and walk to the office this morning -- now to savor the best lines in my head for the rest of the day, and reread it tonight on the way home." — 14 mag. 05:28
""Thoroughly American and utterly beautiful", indeed. I read through the essay during my ride and walk to the office this morning -- now to savor the best lines in my head for the rest of the day, and reread it tonight on the way home." — 14 mag. 05:28
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"This is also a brutal read. Nafisi so loves literature and so loves her people that she risks everything to bring the two together. I've been plodding through for months now. Her work feels so much like the little boy throwing a beach full of starfish back into the ocean, one by one -- she reads, and teaches, and shares the stories in the hope of cracking open the door to the world for just a few precious people." — 07 gen. 06:42
"This is also a brutal read. Nafisi so loves literature and so loves her people that she risks everything to bring the two together. I've been plodding through for months now. Her work feels so much like the little boy throwing a beach full of starfish back into the ocean, one by one -- she reads, and teaches, and shares the stories in the hope of cracking open the door to the world for just a few precious people." — 07 gen. 06:42
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