Anmelder-jubel for Nafisi

· “A memoir about teaching western literature in revolutionary Iran, with profound and fascinating insights into bouth. A masterpiece.” - Bernard Lewis, bestselling author of The Crisis of Islam





· “Anyone who has ever belonged to a book group must read this book” - Geraldine Brooks, author of Nine Parts of Desire





· “Fremragende iransk erindringsbok fra årene etter Khomeinis magtovertagelse skrevet af en kvinde, der brugte litteraturen som forløsende kraft”. – Merete A. Baird, Weekendavisen


· "Troubled yet inspiriting (.....) Anguished and glorious" - Cynthia Ozick, The New Republic





· “Stunning... a literary life raft on Iran’s fundamentalist sea.. All readers should read it.” - Margaret Atwood





· "Reading Lolita in Tehran is sophisticated and bursting with texture and sensuality." - Joy Press, The Village Voice





· “A quietly magnificent book... (Nafisi’s) passion is irresistible.” - LA Weekly





· “ Nafisi reminds us why we read in the first place.” - Newsday





· “As timely as it is well-written... As the world seems to further divide itself into them and us, Nafisi reminds her readers of the folly of thinking in black and white.” - Cleveland Plain Dealer





· “Brilliant... So much is right with this book, if not with this world” - The Boston Globe





· “You will be taken inside a culture, and on a journey, that you will never forget” - Jacki Lyden, author of Daugher of the Queen of Sheeba





· "Remarkable... Resonant and deeply affecting (...) An eloquent brief on the transformative powers of fiction. (...)It is a visceral and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in that country and its fallout on the day-to-day lives of Nafisi and her students. It is a thoughtful account of the novels they studied together and the unexpected parallels they drew between those books and their own experiences as women living under the unforgiving rule of the mullahs. " - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times





· "She wanted them to see that novels could transform their squashed and humiliated lives, and she seems to have succeeded marvelously. You have to spend a lifetime reading to write as well as Nafisi does. She is incapable of writing a trite or bad sentence." - Gloria Emerson, The Nation





· " Certain books by our most talented essayists (...)carry inside their covers the heat and struggle of a life's central choice being made and the price being paid, while the writer tells us about other matters, and leaves behind a path of sadness and sparkling loss. Reading Lolita in Tehran is such a book." - Mona Simpson, The Atlantic Monthly





· “Readers will have a new appreciation for the worn Nabokov and James titles on their bookshelves after reading Nafisi’s engaging memoir.” - Minneapolis Star tribune





· “Nafisi’s writing has painterly qualities.. She is able to capture a moment and describe it with ease and melancholy... Reading Lolita in Tehran is much more than a literary memoir; it becomes a tool for teaching us how to construe literature in a new, more meaningful way”. – the Library journal





· "It occurs to the reader that the book as a whole is a thrilling courtroom drama, with the Islamic Republic in the dock, the universal literature prosecuting it for obscurantism and tyranny, and the protagonists of great novels witnesses for the prosecution." - Shusha Guppy, Financial Times





· " The charismatic passion in the book is not simply for literature itself but for the kind of inspirational teaching of it which helps students to teach themselves by applying their own intelligence and emotions to what they are reading." - Paul Allen, The Guardian





· “An intimate memoir of life under a repressive regime and a celebration of the vitality of literature. (...) As rich and profound as the novels Nafisi teaches.” - The Miami Herald





· An inspiring account of an insatiable desire for intellectual freedom.” - USA Today





· “Transcends categorization as memoir, literary criticism or social history, though it is superb as all three... Nafisi has produced an original work on the relationship between life and literatur.” - Publishers Weekly





· “Nafisi’s passion for books is infectious, and her description of the effect of the revolution on its people is unforgettable.” - Denver Rocky Mountain News





· “A sparkling memoir.. A spirited tribute both toi the classics of world literature and to resistance against oppression.” - Kirkus Review.





· “Nafisi artfully intertwines her own coming-og-age in the pre-Revolutionary Tehran with the daily frustrations of her pupils... She relates her girl’s moving stories with great sympathy.” - Entertainment Weekly





· “A poignant, searing tale about the secret ways Iranian women defy the regime... nafisi makes you want to rush back to all these books to experience the hidden sapects shes’s eluciated.” - Salon





· "There is nothing intemperate or sentimental in Nafisi's writing. Violent events and grand literary themes are handled modestly and elegantly. Her precise, restrained tone reinforces the credibility of her account." - Rory Stewart, New Statesman





· "Reading Lolita in Tehran, is not so much a view into her private self as it is an explication of her desires and views in relation to her country and her work. Thus it is a memoir of books, for Nafisi seems able to discuss these subjects only by engaging in a literary dialogue, just as she remains unable to read the authors she critiques without feeling their direct connection to the lives -- and deaths -- of the women she taught in Iran." - Christine Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle





· "This important book is an eloquent testimony to the ability of human beings faced with tyranny to find freedom inside their own heads." - Fiona Hook, The Times





· " Her book is a passionate and thought-provoking account of reading English literature in adverse conditions. (...) It must be apparent that it is a book of extraordinary interest." - Robert Irwin, Times Literary Supplement





· "An inspiring account of an insatiable desire for intellectual freedom in Iran before, during and after the 1979 revolution (.....) The most moving passages describe the innocent, everyday sensations the women are denied, such as feeling the wind and the sun on their hair and skin." - Stephen J. Lyons, USA Today





· "In a neat conceit, Nafisi uses certain key novels as a springboard for an account of the Iranian revolution and its impact on the women's lives. (...) It is hard to remain calm as she relates the horrors and absurdities of a regime in which the Chief Censor (and subsequent head of television) was blind, one of the reading group was subjected to a humiliating virginity test and 25 lashes for exhibiting 'Western attitudes', and the Ayatollah Khomeini suggested sex with a chicken as a remedy for a man's excess appetites" - Michael Arditti, Daily Mail





· “I was enthralled and moved by Nafisi’s account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam’s war against women. Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections about the ravages of theocracy, about thougtfulness, and about the ordeals of freedom – as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and the deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great literature and with an inspired teacher.” - Susan Sontag