Reading Lolita in Tehran. Nafisi A.

An outstanding documentary novel, deservedly gaining world popularity. The book about how politics invades a person’s personal life, and about the thirst for freedom, which cannot be destroyed. A true story filled with amazing details is a look from the inside of the existence in the country.

Azar Nafisi, the daughter of the former mayor of Tehran, who received his education in America, returns to his homeland to teach Iranian students foreign literature. The Islamic Revolution destroys all plans, and classes turn into secret meetings. While law enforcement officers arrange raids throughout the country, fundamentalists capture universities, and censorship strangles art, girls visiting Nafisi fearlessly take off the hijabs and inspirely plunge into the worlds of Jane Austin, Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Vladimir Nabokov.

“shabby unreality” of what is happening into an enchanting festival of love for literature.