The Republic of Imagination America in Three Books

Azar Nafisi, Mozhan Marnò

eAudio - 2014

A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people’s lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in TehranTen years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has written the audiobook her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What Reading Lolita in Tehran was for Iran, The Republic of Imagination is for America.Taking her cue from a challenge thrown t...o her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don’t care about books the way they did back in Iran, she... more