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From the beloved bestselling author of READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN, comes this moving memoir of Nafisi's growing up in a complex family, in Tehran. This gifted story teller masterfully uses her own life to illuminate the mother-daughter struggle, the triangle between mother-daughter-father, and other issues for women living in a repressive society.

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From the beloved bestselling author of READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN, comes this moving memoir of Nafisi's growing up in a complex family, in Tehran. This gifted story teller masterfully uses her own life to illuminate the mother-daughter struggle, the triangle between mother-daughter-father, and other issues for women living in a repressive society.
Autorenporträt
Azar Nafisi ist Professorin für englische Literatur an der Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. Sie lehrte als Gastdozentin in Oxford und unterrichtete im Iran an der Universität. Weil sie sich weigerte, den Schleier zu tragen, erhielt Nafisi Lehrverbot. 1997 verließ sie den Iran und wanderte in die USA aus. Sie schreibt für die New York Times, die Washington Post, das Wall Street Journal und den New Republic.
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Things I've Been Silent About transports us to a world that is at once enchanting and threatening; it is a tale that mixes family feuds, politics and literature and holds our interest from the first to the last page Financial Times