CANCELLED Banned Books Week Discussion

Azar Nafisi published her memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, in March 2003. In it, she recounts her experience of returning to Iran during the revolution and living under the new totalitarian regime until leaving the country in 1997. The memoir centers around seven students of Dr. Nafisi’s, who form a clandestine book club and meet at her house to discuss works of Western literature, including Lolita, Henry James’s Daisy Miller and Washington Square, The Great Gatsby, and Pride and Prejudice. In honor of the twentieth anniversary of the book’s publication, our librarians will lead a discussion on the extraordinary power of literature to subvert power structures.