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Mar 28, 2013bkilfoy rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Nafisi's memoir recounts her experiences in Iran from when she returned there with her husband just prior to the Revolution until she left for the United States in the mid-nineties. A unique blend of literary criticism and personal narrative, the book is framed around her responses to literature as an English literature professor and how it interwove with her experience. The book allows for a unique insight into the realities of women living in Iran and Nafisi's own conflicts over the country she knew, the country that currently exists, and the realities that such a regime forces on its people. Nafisi's work is just as much about the internal space, her thoughts on literature, and her discussions with her students as it is about the experiences she had in Iran. A study in complexity, the book is profound, moving, and thought-provoking.