Laila Lalami

reading lolita in tehran

Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran gets the Michiko Kakutani treatment in the New York Times.

Kakutani liked the book, calling it a “resonant and deeply affecting memoir.”

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 16th, 2003 at 7:54 am and is filed under literary life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “reading lolita in tehran”

1. Jonathan Edelstein Says:
   April 16th, 2003 at 11:42 am

   Another book to order…

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