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The Republic of Imagination
Azar Nafisi
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Description for The Republic of Imagination
Paperback. Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her at a reading, the author energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us today. She tells the story of a country where the villains are conformity, and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252.
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today.
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Windmill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099558934
SKU
V9780099558934
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99-9
About Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi is a visiting professor and the executive director of Cultural Conversations at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She has taught Western literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and the University of Allameh Tabatabai in Iran. In 1981 she was expelled from the University of Tehran after refusing to wear the veil. ... Read more
Reviews for The Republic of Imagination
Playful, sombre and tender, Nafisi's character-vignettes persuade us that reading nourishes empathy and friendship, opening the forbidden path through the green gate.
Independent
Resonant and deeply affecting . . . an eloquent brief on the transformative powers of fiction.
New York Times
We are all citizens of Azar Nafisi’s The Republic of Imagination. Without imagination there ... Read more
Independent
Resonant and deeply affecting . . . an eloquent brief on the transformative powers of fiction.
New York Times
We are all citizens of Azar Nafisi’s The Republic of Imagination. Without imagination there ... Read more