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Hadji Muradby Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Azar NafisiISBN 0812967119 (0-8129-6711-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hadji Murad'Book summary:In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murád, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamils prison, Hadji Murád was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle of his life, was killed.
Tolstoy, witness to many of the events leading to Hadji Muráds death, set down this story with painstaking accuracy to preserve for future generations the horror, nobility, and destruction inherent in war. [via]More editions of Hadji Murad:
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My Uncle Napoleonby Dick Davis, Iraj Pizishkzad, Azar NafisiISBN 0812974433 (0-8129-7443-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Uncle Napoleon'Book summary:The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century
God forbid, Ive fallen in love with Layli! So begins the farce of our narrators life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon. When Uncle Napoleons least-favorite nephew falls for his daughter, Layli, family fortunes are reversed, feuds fired up and resolved, and assignations attempted and thwarted.
First published in Iran in the 1970s and adapted into a hugely successful television series, this beloved novel is now Suggested Reading in Azar Nafisis Reading Lolita in Tehran. My Uncle Napoleon is a timeless and universal satire of first love and family intrigue. [via]More editions of My Uncle Napoleon:
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Reading Lolita in Tehranby Azar NafisiISBN 0733618235 (0-7336-1823-5)
Softcover, Hachette Livre Australia
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Booksby Azar NafisiISBN 1417622091 (1-4176-2209-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books'Book summary:An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to its repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels.
For two years they met to talk, share and "shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into color". Though most of the women were shy and intimidated at first, they soon became emboldened by the forum and used the meetings as a springboard for debating the social, cultural and political realities of living under strict Islamic rule. They discussed their harassment at the hands of "morality guards," the daily indignities of living under Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, the effects of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, love, marriage and life in general, giving readers a rare inside look at revolutionary Iran. The books were always the primary focus, however and they became "essential to our lives: they were not a luxury but a necessity", she writes.
Threaded into the memoir are trenchant discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The great works encouraged them to strike out against authoritarianism and repression in their own ways, both large and small: "There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom." In short, the art helped them to survive. --Shawn Carkonen, Amazon.com [via]
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- Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books: ISBN 1860649815 (1-86064-981-5)
Hardcover, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books: ISBN 158724487X (1-58724-487-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books: ISBN 081297106X (0-8129-7106-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books: ISBN 0812979303 (0-8129-7930-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books: ISBN 0007178484 (0-00-717848-4)
Hardcover, Zondervan - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books: ISBN 0375504907 (0-375-50490-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books: ISBN 1417622091 (1-4176-2209-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
- Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books: ISBN 1860649815 (1-86064-981-5)
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kingsby Abulqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis, Azar NafisiISBN 0143104934 (0-14-310493-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book Of Kingsby Dick Davis, Firdawsi, Azar NafisiISBN 0670034851 (0-670-03485-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shahnameh: The Persian Book Of Kings'Book summary:Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings, the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century.
As a window on the world, Shahnameh belongs in the company of such literary masterpieces as Dantes Divine Comedy, the plays of Shakespeare, the epics of Homer classics whose reach and range bring whole cultures into view. In its pages are unforgettable moments of national triumph and failure, human courage and cruelty, blissful love and bitter grief.
In tracing the roots of Iran, Shahnameh initially draws on the depths of legend and then carries its story into historical times, when ancient Persia was swept into an expanding Islamic empire. Now Dick Davis, the greatest modern translator of Persian poetry, has revisited that poem, turning the finest stories of Ferdowsis original into an elegant combination of prose and verse. For the first time in English, in the most complete form possible, readers can experience Shahnameh in the same way that Iranian storytellers have lovingly conveyed it in Persian for the past thousand years. [via]
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Things I've Been Silent About: A Memoir in Momentsby Azar NafisiISBN 1400063612 (1-4000-6361-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Untitled 1by Azar NafisiISBN 0099487128 (0-09-948712-8)
Hardcover, Random House
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Untitled 2by Azar NafisiISBN 0099487136 (0-09-948713-6)
Hardcover, Random House
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Leer 'Lolita' En Teheran / Reading Lolita In Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8476696310 (84-7669-631-0)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Leer Lolita En Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8496333159 (84-96333-15-9)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Lolita lesen in Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 3421058512 (3-421-05851-2)
Softcover
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita lesen in Teheran'Book summary:Literatur, wie alle Künste, kann nur in Freiheit gedeihen. Und mit der ist es im Iran, wie auch immer man zu dem ihm vorangegangenen Schah-Regime stehen mag, nicht weit her seit der islamischen Revolution. Darüber, und wie sie sich mit einer handverlesenen Auswahl ihrer Studentinnen in ihrem Haus die Freiheit zurückeroberte, die Bücher zu lesen (und vor allem frei über sie zu reden), die sie, aus welchen Gründen auch immer, für lesenswert hielt -- darüber berichtet dieses seinerseits unbedingt lesenswerte Buch der iranischen Literaturprofessorin Azar Nafisi.
Das Buch selbst entstand im amerikanischen Exil. Was sie berichtet, ereignete sich noch in Teheran, wo sie nach ihrer freiwilligen Demission aus dem Hochschuldienst im Schutz ihrer Wohnung mit den Teilnehmerinnen an ihrem Privatseminar konspirativ Werke der Weltliteratur studierte. Unter anderem die titelgebende Lolita Vladimir Nabokovs oder auch Der große Gatsby von F. Scott Fitzgerald. Allesamt Werke jedenfalls, die im Zuge der islamischen Kulturrevolution als dem organisierten "Versuch, den Iran von der so genannten dekadenten westlichen Kultur zu säubern" von den Leselisten an den Universitäten verschwanden. Bei der gemeinsamen Lektüre lernen sich die Frauen von Seiten kennen, die sie in ihrem sonstigen Leben sorgsam verbergen müssen, wie ihr Haar unter dem Schleier. Und auch für uns Leser eröffnet sich eine völlig neue Sicht auf den Iran und die Menschen, die sich dort auch unter widrigen Umständen die Freiheit ihres Intellekts erhalten&
Dass das Buch ausgerechnet in Amerika so rege Aufmerksamkeit gefunden hat und dort viele Wochen ganz oben auf den Bestsellerlisten stand, ist ein gutes Zeichen und wirft ganz nebenbei auch auf dieses Land ein neues Licht. Eines, das ebenfalls Anlass zur Hoffnung gibt. -- Hasso Greb [via]
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Lolita lesen in Teheran. Pantheon Paperbacksby Azar NafisiISBN 3570550168 (3-570-55016-8)
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