Dzsosszika’s Reviews > Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books > Status Update

Books referenced:
The Prime of Miss Jane Brodie
Invitation to a beheading
A thousand and one nights
Madame Bovary
Lolita
The real life of Sebastian Knight
Hamlet

This book is excellent: part literary criticism, a description of the trials of life for women in 1990’s Iran, and a story of friendship.

Part one complete, entitled ”Lolita”. Lots of comparisons drawn between the raped child Lolita and Iranian women.