Austin Chapter
Reader's Guide
September 2004
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi
An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited...
- Did this increase your understanding of Iran and its people? How?
- Did this book increase your desire to read fiction?
- How would you rate this book against others we have read?
- Choose a question from the "Questions for Discussion" in the back of the book. Be prepared to lead the discussion of that question.
- Choose one or more of the students and be prepared to describe them, how Nafisi met them, and what happened to them.
- How would you characterize Nafisi's relationship with her magician?
- Do you think this book would have been easier to follow if it had followed a different order?
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