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THE REPUBLIC OF IMAGINATION
America in Three Books
You certainly remeber Azar Nafisi’s blockbuster READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN and then her memoir THINGS I’VE BEEN SILENT ABOUT. Azar’s new book, REPUBLIC OF IMAGINATION, will revisit many of the themes of LOLITA – it champions the vital importance of literature to a democratic society.
Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating follow-up, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What Reading Lolita in Tehran was for Iran, The Republic of Imagination is for America.
Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don’t care about books the way they did back in Iran, she challenges those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her three favorite American novels—Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter—she invites us to join her as citizens of her “Republic of Imagination,” a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy, and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.
Azar Nafisi is the author of Things I’ve Been Silent About and Reading Lolita in Tehran (Random House), the award-winning, critically acclaimed, million-plus copy New York Times bestseller. She lectures and writes extensively on the political implications of literature and culture.
Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don’t care about books the way they did back in Iran, she challenges those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her three favorite American novels—Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter—she invites us to join her as citizens of her “Republic of Imagination,” a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy, and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.
Azar Nafisi is the author of Things I’ve Been Silent About and Reading Lolita in Tehran (Random House), the award-winning, critically acclaimed, million-plus copy New York Times bestseller. She lectures and writes extensively on the political implications of literature and culture.
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