Reading Lolita Again

摘要

Azar nafisi's new book is both prequel and sequel to her earlier memoir, "Reading Lolita in Tehran". Her latest work, "Things I've Been Silent About", reveals some inconvenient truths about Ms Nafisi's upbringing that she chose to keep private while her parents were alive. The book is less inventive than her earlier work, which was not so much about the author than about the contradictions of post-revolutionary Iran. But it still has appeal as a portrait of a family and a country that are at once alluring and deeply dysfunctional.