Hit novel ‘Reading Lolita in Theran’ is now a movie, ten years later
Reading Lolita in Tehran, the best-selling memoir by Azar Nafisi, came out in 2003. It told the story of how Nafisi and seven other women read the Western canon together in defiance of the law, even…
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