Reading Lolita in Tehran

An outstanding documentary novel that has rightfully gained worldwide popularity. A book about how politics invades a person's personal life and the thirst for freedom that cannot be extinguished. A true story filled with astonishing details - an inside look at existence in a pariah country.

Azzar Nafisi, the daughter of a former mayor of Tehran, educated in America, returns to her homeland to teach Iranian students foreign literature. The Islamic Revolution shatters all plans, turning lessons into secret gatherings. While the guardians of order conduct raids across the country, fundamentalists seize universities, and censorship suffocates art, the girls visiting Nafisi boldly remove their hijabs and passionately immerse themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and Vladimir Nabokov. The "shaky unrealities" of what is happening turn into a spectacular celebration of love for literature.