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Azar Nafisi quotes Nabokov many times in her novel. Nabokov is the author of Lolita. I have never read Lolita but the way Azar describes the oppression in her country by those who wish to control that which can not be controlled by creating a world which is designed to keep men from being tempted by a woman who is only being herself. Who needs to be controlled? The oppressed? Or the oppressor(s)

I was not going to read this book yet but Saturday morning I picked it up and hated to put it down... So far.