Azar Nafisi

The bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi has turned her passion for books and stories on the American experience, exploring the importance of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter in The republic of imagination: America in Three Books. Shelf Awareness says, “In elegant, insightful prose, she blends literary criticism, personal history and social commentary to create an enticing invitation to inhabit The republic of imagination.”

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Charis kicks off its 40th anniversary year celebrations by welcoming Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The republic of imagination, to Decatur in conjunction with the Georgia Center for the Book. The republic of imagination AMERICA IN THREE BOOKS Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What Reading Lolita in Tehran was for Iran, The republic of imagination is for America. Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don’t care about books the way they did back in Iran, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, among others—she invites us to join her as citizens of her “Republic of Imagination,” a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.

Location: Street: First Baptist Church Additional: 308 Clairemont Ave City: Decatur , Province: Georgia Postal Code: 30030 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Charis kicks off its 40th anniversary year celebrations by welcoming Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books, to Decatur in conjunction with the Georgia Center for the Book.

Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What Reading Lolita in Tehran was for Iran, The Republic of Imagination is for America. Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don’t care about books the way they did back in Iran, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, among others—she invites us to join her as citizens of her “Republic of Imagination,” a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.

Location: First Baptist Church Decatur, 308 Clairemont Ave, Decatur, GA 30030 (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran showed how essential literature is to life in a repressive culture. Does fiction play a similar role in a free society? Arguing passionately that it does, Nafisi combines memoir with close readings of works by Twain, McCullers, and Sinclair Lewis to demonstrate fiction’s power to keep minds open and resistant to conformity. (Viking)

Beer and wine will be available.

Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

The republic of imagination: America in Three Books Azar Nafisi Azar Nafisi is best known for 2003’s Reading Lolita in Tehran, an impassioned account of two years spent secretly teaching banned western novels to female students in her native Iran. Transcending “categorization as memoir, literary criticism, or social history” (Publishers Weekly), it spent over 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. She has been a visiting fellow and lecturer at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School, has published much scholarly work, and has written for such publications as the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. The republic of imagination blends thesis with memoir as Nafisi pays tribute to her three favorite American novels. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students. Book with ticket, $36. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

An acclaimed fiction writer in her native Iran, Taraghi has been a Paris expatriate since the Iranian revolution. Her work has been widely anthologized, but only now is a substantial selection of her short stories available in English. Exploring themes of alienation and revolution, identity and change, these works are grounded in Taraghi’s experiences even as they have a universal appeal. Taraghi will be in conversation with Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran.

Beer and wine will be available.

Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Author Azar Nafisi, Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Reading Lolita in Tehran

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Reading Lolita in Tehran is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny, and a celebration of the liberating power of literature. (SqueakyChu)… (més)