“The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.”
Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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