Selma A. reviewed on 12/8/2009

I found this book to be tediously boring. The author gave a lot of interesting information about the revolution in Iran, and I truly felt for the women who suffered the indignities of the Revolutionary Guard. What was boring was the incessant explanations that only a university professor or English teacher could give on the juxtoposition of each novel discussed in the book in relation to the experiences of the author. I think Mrs. Nafisi's memoir would have been more effective if she left the literature out and just gave us her point of view on the political turmoil that she and her students suffered.

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