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In her second memoir, Azar Nafisi (READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN) reveals the cruel secrets of her childhood in Iran and examines the depths of her parents' dysfunctional marriage. Nafisi's mother lived in perpetual mourning for her dead first husband, and took out her bitterness against her second husband and her daughter, ignoring Azar's suicide attempt and her sexual molestation at the hands of a family friend and "holy" man. As a result of his wife's cruelty, Azar's father turned to other women, a reaction that the author sees in a sympathetic light. Meanwhile, the political upheaval of the Iranian Revolution serves as a dramatic backdrop to the family crisis. Nafisi's emotional wounds go deep, but her powerful memoir faces them with the unflinching gaze of a morgue physician.
| Size | | Length: | 336 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 23.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"A gifted storyteller with a mastery of Western literature, Nafisi knows how to use language both to settle scores and to seduce. Her family secrets pour forth in a flood of revelations of anger, humiliation and deceit."
(01/04/2009)
"[T]he book builds into an affecting account of a family's struggle to survive the vicissitudes of political and personal strife...[It] burrows inward to look at the dynamics of duty and rebellion, love and resentment that linked the author to her parents."
(02/13/2009)
"Nafisi's cathartic account of her difficult childhood, doomed first marriage, and political awakening glimmer with vivid memories of Tehran...." (Starred review.)
(12/01/2008)
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