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Dr. Raafat does not care about his young wife, Samiha, as much as he cares about reading and following the works of the famous novelist, the monk of thought. So the wife decides to search for the monk himself for the secret of his popularity and his possession of all her husband’s senses, but soon she, in turn, becomes one of his enthusiastic students, and when she fails to flirt with him and seduce him, she decides to start... To write a story inspired by her life.
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As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.

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