Azar Nafisi Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Azar Nafisi is a writer and professor of English literature. Author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, Things I’ve Been Silent about, The Republic of Imagination, That Other World, and Read Dangerously.

6 books

The Handmaid's Tale (Movie Tie-In)

Margaret Atwood

Azar Nafisi

She (Atwood) used all facts to shape her dystopian novel, and she shapes these facts in a way that you get the spirt, the atmosphere of a totalitarian state. She makes it come alive for you.

Paperback, 2017

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski

Clark Young

Azar Nafisi

The wonderful new play by Clark Young and Derek Goldman has been published as Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski. Among the book's contributions is my conversation with @schneidercp titled “Bearing Witness and Speaking Truth to Power.” https://t.co/GCqIZp0gy3 https://t.co/Ln1rMnE59K

Paperback, 2021

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Homeland Elegies

Ayad Akhtar

Azar Nafisi

Thank you to the @TwainHouse for hosting a lovely conversation with @ayadakhtar and I on Monday in honor of Mark Twain's birthday. We discussed the powerful themes of Ayad's new book, Homeland Elegies. A recording can be found here: https://t.co/oujJ1CEQkB #HomelandElegies

Paperback, 2021

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin

Margaret Atwood

Azar Nafisi

@MargaretAtwood's The Handmaid’s Tale is so timely. “The life given by works of imagination goes beyond reality in the search of truth. That is why some readers of Atwood’s novel in #Iran have felt so close to the book, because they feel that it is describing their lives.” https://t.co/6M5H3CYGLx

Hardcover, 2006

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings [Illustrated Slipcase Edition]

Ferdowsi

Azar Nafisi

@ShimaOliaee Good time to be thinking of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, with Iranians coming into the streets, risking their lives to take back their confiscated dignity and national identity.

Hardcover, 2017

$125.00$100.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)

Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Azar Nafisi

Thank you @gbahadur for this gracious & detailed review of #ReadDangerously in the @washingtonpost. “With sensitivity and intelligence, it [Read Dangerously] offers a new canon for the tyrannies of the present and the dystopian possibilities of the future.”https://wapo.st/3KI5I3L

Hardcover, 2022

$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book