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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books I loved this book! Nafisi's love of Western literature is infectious. She uses the classics as an opitae to dull the pain of her citizenship in the the Islamic Republic of Iran. Fortunately, she shares her passion for literature with other bright women in Tehran and this book is about their relationship with each other and to literature. While reading this book, I felt like I was in Nafisi's living room drinking coffee and eating pastries with her and her students. After the revolution, Nafisi lost almost every personal freedom she had ever enjoyed. As a result, this book is thought provoking on many levels and subjects,including personal freedom, censorship, personal expression, activism and complacency.