Azar Nafisi Audio Books

For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature....

I started making a list in my diary entitled Things I Have Been Silent About. Under it I wrote: Falling in Love in Tehran.

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics.

The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.

A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to transform people's lives, by the number one New York Times best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran.