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Unabridged
ISBN:
9780062947390
Content:
" 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] stunning look at the power of reading. ... Provokes and inspires at every turn. 8212 Publishers Weekly (starred review) What is the role of literature in an era when one political party wages continual war on writers and the press? What is the connection between political strife in our daily lives, and the way we meet our enemies on the page in fiction? How can literature, through its free exchange, affect politics? In this galvanizing guide to literature as resistance, Nafisi seeks to answer these questions. Drawing on her experiences as a woman and voracious reader living in the Islamic Republic of Iran, her life as an immigrant in the United States, and her role as literature professor in both countries, she crafts an argument for why, in a genuine democracy, we must engage with the enemy, and how literature can be a vehicle for doing so. Structured as a series of letters to her father, who taught her as a child about how literature can rescue us in times of trauma, Nafisi explores the most probing questions of our time through the works of Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin, Margaret Atwood, and more. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. "
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Biographisches: " AZAR NAFISI is the author of the multi-award-winning New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, as well as Things I've Been Silent About, The Republic of Imagination, and That Other World . Formerly a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Policy Institute, she has taught at Oxford and several universities in Tehran. She lives in Washington, D.C. " Biographisches: " AZAR NAFISI is the author of the multi-award-winning New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, as well as Things I've Been Silent About, The Republic of Imagination, and That Other World . Formerly a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Policy Institute, she has taught at Oxford and several universities in Tehran. She lives in Washington, D.C. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:The celebrated author of READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN narrates her audiobook in a deliberate, serious, and passionate manner. Listeners need to be aware that while she is an eloquent writer, she does read with a distinct Iranian accent. This works to her advantage when she discusses Iranian literature and places in Iran. The work is written as a series of letters--each concerns a different writer or writers--to her deceased father, the heroic former mayor of Tehran. Candidly, this conceit wears thin. That said, her ability to define how various writers chose to flaunt authority, write independently (fearlessly), and speak truth to power makes for an engrossing audiobook that will give listeners fresh appreciation for Rushdie, Atwood, Baldwin, and other writers around the world who wrote bravely. A.D.M. � AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine" Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 1, 2022 In this illuminating, deeply affecting work, Nafisi ( Reading Lolita in Tehran ) compellingly argues that literature can bring people together across the political divide. Presented as a series of letters written to her late father--a construct all the more moving in the audio version since the author serves as the narrator--Nafisi discusses important, sometimes divisive texts written by the likes of Salman Rushdie, Zora Neale Hurston, Elias Khouri, Margaret Atwood, and James Baldwin. Nafisi weaves in her own experiences and those of her friends and family, who have lived under Iranian authoritarian regimes before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. She shares many of her father's experiences as a mayor of Tehran,he was jailed in 1963 and held for four years on trumped-up charges from which he was later exonerated. Nafisi also discusses the prejudice, closed-mindedness, and authoritarianism she sees in safe democracies like the U.S. While some listeners might find the references to her father repetitive, Nafisi expertly pairs her family's experiences with the literature she is analyzing. VERDICT Most listeners will be inspired by this testament to the healing power of reading and writing. --Beth FarrellCopyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "
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